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Typhoon (JMA)
Category 2 typhoon (SSHWS)
Duration	September 25 – October 3
Peak intensity	140 km/h (85 mph) (10-min); 965 hPa (mbar)

Typhoon Mitag, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Onyok, was the 18th named tropical storm, and seventh typhoon of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season. Originating from a low pressure system, Mitag rapidly intensified into a typhoon, and just shy of major typhoon intensity.

History

A new low pressure system formed in the outer parts of the Western Pacific near the Micronesia Islands near-mid September. The system gradually organized and the Japan Meteorological Agency upgraded it to a tropical depression on September 25. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center then issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on it. The JTWC later upgraded the system to a tropical depression and designated it 19W. The PAGASA named the system "Onyok" as it entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility, and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center upgraded it to Tropical Storm Onyok. On September 28, the Japan Meteorological Agency upgraded Onyok to a tropical storm, and named it Mitag. Mitag began to organize itself, clearly forming a visible circulation while it was east of Luzon. Later that day the JMA upgraded Mitag to a severe tropical storm. Mitag further strengthened into a typhoon by September 29.

Mitag then further intensified, becoming a Category 2 typhoon by evening on September 30, with a small eye developed, before weakening rapidly on October 1. It made landfall on South Korea on the next day as a Category 1 typhoon (still tropical) and further weakened into a tropical storm. On October 3rd it was reported that, so far, Mitag had claimed the lives of 10 people in the country.