The Joint Typhoon Warning Center then issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert for the system.

[1] On September 1, the Philippines agency PAGASA upgraded the system to a tropical depression and named it Liwayway.

Early on September 2, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported that Liwayway intensified into a tropical storm, and named the system Lingling.

[7] Lingling then made landfall as a Category 4 on Miyako-jima, then continued to intensify, and reaching its peak intensity as a violent typhoon, the first since Lekima a month earlier.

At 2:30 p.m. KST (05:30 UTC), Lingling made landfall in South Hwanghae Province, North Korea with winds of 130 km/h (80 mph),[8] becoming the first typhoon and the strongest storm to strike the country.

Extratropical remnants of Lingling would travel through Russia before crossing the International Date Line in September 12.

In a press conference, he said:[18] [Senior officials were] helpless against the typhoon, unaware of its seriousness and seized with easygoing sentiment.Lingling also passed through the Northeast China, affecting 455,000 people, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.

[20] Later, Lingling's extratropical remnants caused flooding in the Russian Far East, with damage in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast amounting to ₽2 billion (US$30.4 million).

[21] In China, The Ministry of Emergency Management sent work teams to Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang to assist in disaster relief.