The province of Palawan, a geographically isolated island from the rest of the country, suffered severe damage due to mudslides and flooding.

In the suburbs of the capital city of Manila, 3,000 people were forced to flee their homes due to rising floodwaters.

[3][nb 1] The same day, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration also started to track the storm and assigned it with the local name Welpring.

After passing through the Visayas island group and emerging into the open water of the Sulu Sea, the system began to increase in organization.

Following an increase in satellite intensity estimates, the JTWC upgraded the depression into a tropical storm, and named it Tess, at 06:00 UTC.

[6][1] At 00:00 UTC on November 6, the JTWC stopped tracking the system;[2] however, intensity estimates from the JMA had only decreased slightly during this time, and continued to classify Tess as a severe tropical storm.

[3] By moving across the central Philippines in its formative phases, Tess became the second tropical cyclone to impact the island group within two weeks;[8] the first was Typhoon Ruby.

By November 10, 75 people were confirmed to have been killed throughout Palawan, with 600 others subsequently listed as missing by the Philippine Red Cross.

[14] In part because the water level was already 5.5 ft (1.7 m) above normal due to Ruby, Laguna Lake, situated on the southeastern side of the capital city of Manila, overflowed its banks.

[20][nb 3] Even though the storm had weakened drastically by this time, Tess killed 37 people in Vietnam,[1] destroyed thousands of homes,[21] and inflicted $11 million in damage.

[1] Following Tess, Philippine President Corazon Aquino visited the provinces of Pangasinan and Pampanga, both situated to the north of Manila to tour damaged areas, distribute relief, aid and inaugurate an infrastructure project.