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Category 4 is the second-highest hurricane classification category on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, and storms that are of this intensity maintain maximum sustained winds of 113–136 knots (130–156 mph, 209–251 km/h). Based on the Atlantic hurricane database, 144 hurricanes have attained Category 4 hurricane status since 1851, the ...
October 17–19, 2015: Typhoon Koppu (Lando) impacts Northern Luzon as a Category 4 super typhoon, killing 62 people in total. December 14–15, 2015: Typhoon Melor (Nona) passes through northern Visayas and Southern Luzon as a strong typhoon. December 18, 2015: Tropical Depression Onyok makes landfall over Davao Oriental, bringing minor damages.
1988 – a severe tropical storm that hit the Philippines. 1991 – a Category 4 typhoon that did not affect land. 1994 – a Category 2 typhoon that did not affect land. 2010† – a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone that affected the Cook Islands. Patricia; 1949 – a category 4 typhoon that did not affect any land. 1970 – remained in the ...
Category 4 is the second highest classification on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale and the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale. The following lists show tropical cyclones that have reached that intensity in Earth's ocean basins. List of Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes; List of Category 4 Pacific hurricanes
The practice of retiring significant names was started during 1955 by the United States Weather Bureau in the Atlantic Ocean, after hurricanes Carol, Edna, and Hazel struck the Northeastern United States and caused a significant amount of damage in the previous year. [4] Initially the names were only designed to be retired for ten years after ...
The Philippines uses its own names for typhoons that enters its “area of responsibility.” ... its strength was equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic with sustained winds of 140 ...
The Philippines is an archipelagic country located in Southeast Asia, beside the northwest Pacific Ocean. The nation consists of 7,641 islands. The nation consists of 7,641 islands. The country is known to be "the most exposed country in the world to tropical storms", with about twenty tropical cyclones entering the Philippine area of ...
Typhoon Kate, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Titang, [1] was the second of two super typhoons to strike the Philippines within a week in October 1970, the first being Super Typhoon Joan. As a result, Kate produced heavy damage and over 631 casualties. At the time, Kate was one of the deadliest typhoons to strike the Philippines.