| Basin: | WPac |
| Year: | 1944 |
| Track: | 1944 Pacific typhoon season summary.png |
| First Storm Formed: | January 7, 1944 |
| Last Storm Dissipated: | December 19, 1944 |
| Strongest Storm Name: | Cobra |
| Strongest Storm Pressure: | 924 |
| Strongest Storm Winds: | 140 |
| Average Wind Speed: | 1 |
| Total Storms: | 23 |
| Fatalities: | >790 |
| Damagespre: | > |
| Five Seasons: | 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946 |
| Atlantic Season: | 1944 Atlantic hurricane season |
| East Pacific Season: | 1942–48 Pacific hurricane seasons |
| North Indian Season: | 1940s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons |
The 1944 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1944, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1944 Pacific hurricane season.
There were 23 tropical cyclones in 1944 in the western Pacific, including Typhoon Cobra.[1]
| Basin: | WPac |
| Track: | 1944 Pacific tropical storm 1 track.png |
| Formed: | January 7 |
| Dissipated: | January 17 |
| Pressure: | ≤1005 |
A long lived slow-moving and erratic tropical storm. The storm formed southwest of Micronesia, turned to the north and the west of Palau and made landfall in Mindanao.[2]
| Basin: | WPac |
| Track: | 1944 Pacific tropical storm 2 track.png |
| Formed: | February 17 |
| Dissipated: | February 19 |
| Pressure: | ≤1000 |
Short-lived storm moving quickly to the northeast.[3] There are many indications that this system was not tropical, such as attached fronts throughout its entire noted life.[4]
| Basin: | WPac |
| Track: | 1944 Pacific tropical storm 3 track.png |
| Formed: | May 12 |
| Dissipated: | May 16 |
| Pressure: | ≤1010 |
The storm formed near Guam. The storm moved in a northern direction in the Pacific Ocean before dissipating on May 16.[5]
| Basin: | WPac |
| Track: | 1944 Pacific typhoon 4 track.png |
| Formed: | June 11 |
| Dissipated: | June 15 |
| Pressure: | ≤1000 |
This typhoon formed in the northwest of Micronesia, tracked to the northwest direction and recurved to the northeast of Philippines before dissipating. [6]
| Basin: | WPac |
| Track: | 1944 Pacific typhoon 6 track.png |
| Formed: | July 15 |
| Dissipated: | July 21 |
| Pressure: | ≤1000 |
See main article: article and Typhoon Cobra.
| Basin: | WPac |
| Formed: | December 14 |
| Dissipated: | December 19 |
| Track: | File:Cobra 1944 track.png |
| Winds: | 140 |
| Pressure: | 924 |
Typhoon Cobra was first spotted on December 17, in the Philippine Sea. It sank three US destroyers, killing at least 790 sailors, before dissipating the next day.