PAGASA decommissions eight tropical cyclone names from the 2024 season
20 February 2025
DOST-PAGASA S&T Media Service
20 February 2025
Quezon City, Philippines
DOST-PAGASA decommissions eight (8) tropical cyclone names from the 2024 season
The Philippine Atmospheric,Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) officially announced the decommissioning of eight (8) tropical cyclone names from its regular set of domestic names due to their destructive impacts in the country.
During the press conference at the sidelines of the 57th Session ESCAP / WMO Typhoon Committee in Pasay City on 17 February 2025, DOST-PAGASA Administrator Nathaniel T. Servando said that the names AGHON, ENTENG, JULIAN, KRISTINE, LEON, NIKA, OFEL, and PEPITO will be removed from the list of domestic names used by the agency for tropical cyclones occurring within the Philippine Area of Responsibility. This made 2024 the year with the most number of decommissioned names since the present naming scheme began in 2001.
A domestic tropical cyclone name is decommissioned or "retired" if its passage directly resulted in the deaths of at least 300 individuals or caused damage to houses, agriculture, and infrastructure amounting to at least PHP 1 billion based on official reports from the Office of the Civil Defense (OCD). However, due to the compounding impacts brought about by the successive typhoon passages during the last quarter of 2024, the names of all tropical cyclones that directly contributed to the compounding impacts were also decommissioned from the list.
With this decommissioning, DOST-PAGASA will be using the replacement names AMUYAO, EDRING, JOSEFA, KIDUL, LEKEP, NANOLAY, ONOS, and PUWOK from its reserved list beginning in 1 January 2028.
For more information, you may reach out to the Marine Meteorological Services Section of the Weather Division by email at typhoon.ops@pagasa.dost.gov.ph or by calling at (02) 8284-0800 local 4800.
Original Signed:
NATHANIEL T. SERVANDO, Ph.D.
Administrator
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