designated it as a tropicalstorm, with the latter agency naming it Thelma. Tracking northwestward, by 29 September, a surface trough caused Thelma to track northeastward
twelfth tropical depression, fourth tropicalstorm, and second typhoon of the inactive 1977 Pacific typhoon season, Thelma originated from a tropical depression
was the first storm to make landfall on Taiwan's densely populated western plains since Typhoon Thelma in 1977. It was also the first storm to hit Kaohsiung