Meteorological History
The system formed about 335 nautical miles (620 km) south-southeast of Iwo Jima, Japan on September 26. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center initiated a warning for it at 00:00 UTC the same day. It was upgraded to Tropical Storm Longwang six hours later. Longwang is Chinese for Dragon King. At 03:00 UTC September 27, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center upgraded it to a typhoon. It continued to increase in strength as it tracked west to west-northwest towards Taiwan. PAGASA named the storm Maring for Philippine warnings on September 29. It made landfall near Hualien City, Taiwan on October 2.
The typhoon was upgraded to Category 2 strength on September 27, and again to Category 3 strength later that day. It was further upgraded to Category 4 strength at 06:00 UTC the next day,by this time it is an annular typhoon. The next day at 09:00 UTC, the storm had weakened sufficiently for it to be declassified as a typhoon.
After Longwang pounded Taiwan on October 2 (October 1 UTC), it entered the Taiwan Strait as it kept weakening. It lashed Fujian Province as well, making its second landfall at 9:35pm local time (13:35 UTC) as a minimal typhoon.
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