Tapah was a TS tropical cyclone that formed in the Philippine Sea in 2002. The storm reached maximum sustained winds of 74 km/h (40 kt) with a minimum central pressure of 996 hPa. Tracking across the Philippine Seain the Western Pacific basin (, it potentially affected the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan. The storm traveled from approximately 6.7°122.1° to 19.0°140.5°, crossing a range of 12 latitude and 18 longitude.