page_title: Timeline of the 2012 Pacific typhoon season
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the 2012 Pacific typhoon season / July
caption_attribution_description: English: Typhoon Vicente at peak intensity as it was making landfall on China. This image was captured July 23, 2012 1755 UTC.
context_page_description: This timeline documents all of the events of the 2012 Pacific typhoon season, the period that tropical cyclones formed in the Western Pacific Ocean during 2012. Most of these tropical cyclones formed between May and November 2012. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator between 100°E and the International Date Line. Tropical storms that form in the entire Western Pacific basin are assigned a name by the Japan Meteorological Agency. Tropical depressions that form in this basin are given a number with a "W" suffix by the United States' Joint Typhoon Warning Center. In addition, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration assigns names to tropical cyclones that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility. These names, however, are not in common use outside of the Philippines.
context_section_description: July 14
  0000 UTC - The JMA monitors a tropical depression which had split from an upper level low.
  1800 UTC - JTWC issues a TCFA alert on the depression.
  2100 UTC - JTWC made warnings on the depression and upgraded it to Tropical Depression 08W.
  July 16
  0300 UTC - The JMA upgrades 08W to a tropical storm, naming it Khanun.
  - The JTWC also upgrades Khanun to a tropical storm.
  0900 UTC - The JMA, JTWC and PAGASA monitors a small LPA, which split from upper level low of Khanun, becomes a tropical disturbance in the Philippine Sea.
  1200 UTC - Khanun enters the corner of the Philippine area of Responsibility, with PAGASA naming it as Enteng.
  2100 UTC - PAGASA makes its final update on Enteng as it exits the PAR.
  July 17
  1800 UTC - Khanun intensifies into a severe tropical storm.
  2100 UTC - The disturbance moves west rapidly as it gathers strength over northern Luzon, Philippines.
  July 18
  0600 UTC - The disturbance was upgraded to a minor tropical depression by the JMA.
  1200 UTC - Khanun weakens as it makes landfall over South Korea.
  2100 UTC - Both the JMA and JTWC downgrades Khanun to a tropical depression.
  July 19
  0300 UTC - The remnants of Khanun dissipates.
  July 20
  0000 UTC - The JTWC issues a TCFA alert on the depression.
  0300 UTC - The PAGASA classifies the depression as an Active Low Pressure Area (ALPA).
  1200 UTC - Both the PAGASA and JTWC classifies it as a tropical depression, with PAGASA naming it as Ferdie and JTWC designating it as 09W.
  July 21
  0900 UTC - JMA upgrades Ferdie to Tropical Storm Vicente as it pushes north towards warmer waters.
  1500 UTC - JTWC classifies Vicente as a tropical storm, so did the PAGASA.
  1800 UTC - Due to strong convection and monsoon, Vicente starts its rapid intensification as it becomes a severe tropical storm.
  July 23
  0300 UTC -  With low vertical windshear and drier air outflow, Vicente explosively becomes a Category 1 typhoon.
  0900 UTC - Typhoon Vicente exits the PAR as it kills 2 people due to heavy flooding in the Philippines.
  1300 UTC - JTWC classifies Vicente as a Category 3 typhoon.
  1500 UTC - Typhoon Vicente reaches its peak intensity as a Category 4 typhoon, but JTWC didn't classified it as a super typhoon, due to land reaction.
  2100 UTC - Typhoon Vicente rapidly weakens to a Category 2/1 typhoon.
  July 24
  0900 UTC - Vicente rapidly weakens to a tropical storm as it affects southern China.
  1500 UTC - JTWC downgrades Vicente to a tropical depression.
  July 26
  0000 UTC - Tropical Depression Vicente rapidly weakens to a LPA.
  0300 UTC - JTWC monitors a tropical disturbance located east of Visayas, Philippines and issues a TCFA.
  - Same with the PAGASA, they classified it as an ALPA.
  0900 UTC - PAGASA rapidly upgrades it to a tropical storm, naming it Gener.
  1200 UTC - Gener intensifies to Tropical Storm Saola.
  - In the same time, JTWC assigns Saola as Tropical Depression 10W, and rapidly a tropical storm.
  July 27
  0300 UTC - JMA monitors another tropical depression, which formed from a cold-core low located southwest of Minamitorishima.
  0900 UTC - The JTWC classifies it as a tropical disturbance.
  July 29
  0000 UTC - Both the JMA and JTWC upgrades the depression to Tropical Storm Damrey.
  0300 UTC - Saola intensifies into a severe tropical storm.
  July 30
  0600 UTC - JTWC classifies Saola as a Category 1 typhoon. In that same time, JMA reports that Saola had intensified into a typhoon, as an eye developed.
  0900 UTC - Due to the strong outflows from Typhoon Saola, Severe Tropical Storm Damrey and moisture of the southwest monsoon, a large tropical disturbance forms in the Pacific Ocean and the JTWC issues a TCFA.
  1800 UTC - Due to warm waters, Damrey intensified into a severe tropical storm and the JTWC classified it as a Category 1 storm.
  2100 UTC - Damrey reaches typhoon strength.
caption: Typhoon Vicente at its peak strength on July 23
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