These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the International Date Line.

It formed on May 6, peaking as a Category 4 with winds up to 240km/h (150 mph) and with a pressure of 922 mbar and dissipated on May 14.

[1] In late August, a depression formed and quickly intensified into a tropical storm and was given the name Jane.

Jane shortly reached category 3 status and peak intensity at 185 km/h (115 mph).

The typhoon accelerated to the north-northeast and weakened to a category 2 storm and made landfall in the modern-day Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto area.

In the Itsukushima Shrine the building was damaged, the Kintai Bridge was lost.

Typhoon Fran was a late season storm that struck the northern Philippines killing 5 people.

For unknown reasons, the names Helene, Jane, Kezia, Lucretia, Missatha, Ossia, Petie, Salome and Delilah were replaced with Helen, June, Kathy, Lorna, Marie, Olga, Pamela, Sally and Dot.