(PAR) for tropical cyclone warnings The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back several centuries, with tropical cyclones being named after affected places, saints or things they hit before the formal start of naming in the Western Pacific. These included the
Kamikaze,
1906 Hong Kong typhoon,
1922 Swatow typhoon and the
1934 Muroto typhoon. Since 1963, the
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has assigned local names to a tropical cyclone should it move into or form as a tropical depression in their
area of responsibility located between 135°E and 115°E and between 5°N-25°N, even if the cyclone has had an international name assigned to it. All three agencies that have assigned names to tropical cyclones within the Western Pacific have retired the names of significant tropical cyclones, with the PAGASA retiring names if a cyclone has caused at least (~US$20 million) in damage and/or have caused at least 300 deaths within the Philippines. The naming lists have been revised in 1979, 1985, 2001 (after a contest called the "Name a Bagyo Contest", conducted by the PAGASA in 1998, where 140 entries were submitted in 1998 to revise the naming system for typhoons within their area of responsibility starting that season), 2005 (for various reasons, including to help minimize confusion in the historical records and to remove the names that might have negative associations with real persons), and 2021 (where the "Reserved List" was introduced). In November 1999, PAGASA announced its intention to retire its old typhoon naming scheme because the names were sometimes perceived as odd, outdated and sexist. As a result, it launched the “Name a Bagyo Contest,” which was designed to find 210 names that PAGASA could assign to tropical cyclones in its self-defined area of responsibility. , 92 tropical cyclone names have been retired, with the most recent being
Crising,
Emong,
Mirasol,
Nando,
Opong,
Tino, and
Uwan from the
2025 season. ==Retired names==