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FOREWORD
This report is published annually and summarizes Western and Central North Pacific typhoons. During 1962, no typhoons or tropical storms were reported in the Central North Pacific.
The Joint Meteorological Group, Pacific Command, through CINCPACFLT, as executive agent, redesignated Fleet Weather Central, Guam as Fleet Weather Central/Joint Typhoon Warning Center (FWC/JTWC), Guam, effective 1 May 1959, with the following additional responsibilities:
1. To provide warnings to U. S. Government agencies for all tropical cyclones west of 180 degrees longitude north of the equator to the Asiatic coast and Malayan Peninsula.
2. To determine tropical cyclone reconnaissance requirements and assign priorities.
3. To conduct investigative and post analysis programs including preparation of the Annual Typhoon Report.
4. To conduct tropical cyclone forecasting and detection research as practicable.
Fuchu Air Force Weather Central, assisted as necessary by Fleet Weather Facility, Yokosuka, was designated as alternate JTWC in case of failure of FWC/JTWC, Guam.
The JTWC, which is an integral section of FWC/JTWC, Guam, is staffed by three Air Force and three Navy meteorologists and three enlisted men from each service. The senior Air Force officer has been designated as the Director, JTWC.
The Joint Hurricane Warning Center in Hawaii, a coordinated agency composed of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Honolulu, the Air Force Kunia Weather Center, and Fleet Weather Central, Pearl Harbor, is responsible for surveillance and issuance of warnings in the Central North Pacific area north of the equator between 180 degrees and west of 140 degrees west. There were two tropical depressions within this area in warning status in 1962.