soon after pabuk crossed over into the basin, the imd started to make warnings on the storm, making pabuk the earliest-forming cyclonic storm for this basin, as well as the first cyclonic storm with a name originally assigned by rsmc tokyo. over the few days days, pabuk continued moved west-northwestward, before weakening into a well-marked low on january 7. the system's remnant low then turned to the northeast. finally, it disappeared on january 8.