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Severe Tropical Storm Khanun (Thai: ขนุน), known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Enteng, was the first tropical cyclone to directly impact Korea in two years. It is the 8th named storm, the 3rd severe tropical storm, and overall, the 13th tropical cyclone to be monitored by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) during 2012.
As a result, many residents were unprepared when the storm struck. According to government officials, the lack of warning resulted in increased casualties and damage. [13] Although Thelma had weakened considerably prior to landfall, the typhoon was considered by press reports to be the worst to strike South Korea since 1959. [14]
Typhoon Vera, known as Typhoon Loleng in the Philippines, [1] affected Okinawa, China, and South Korea during August 1986. A tropical depression formed on August 13 and attained tropical storm intensity later that day. Initially, Vera meandered in the monsoon trough. On August 17, however, the system abruptly re-formed to east-northeast, and ...
Typhoon warnings were posted for Cheju Island and up to 80 km (50 mi) inland across South Korea. Ferry service between Cheju and the mainland was canceled due to the impeding threat of rough seas, [8] prompting 800 fishing boats to seek shelter. [8] Throughout South Korea, nine people were killed or missing and hundreds lost their homes.
Satellite loop of Tropical Storm Khanun a few hours before landfall in South Korea on August 10. Typhoon Khanun became the first to pass through the Korean Peninsula from south to north since recordkeeping began in 1951. [48] Khanun impacted Geojedo in South Korea, a small island located off the southeastern coast of the nation. [49]
Tropical Storm Pulasan, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Helen, was a tropical cyclone that impacted East China, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines in September 2024. Pulasan developed over the Philippine Sea as a tropical depression on September 15 and strengthened into the fourteenth named storm of the annual typhoon season the ...
Typhoon Mitag, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Onyok, was a moderately strong tropical cyclone that severely affected Taiwan, East China and South Korea in early October 2019. The 23rd depression and the 8th typhoon of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season , Mitag developed from a low pressure system near the Micronesia Islands on September 24.
Typhoon Maemi (pronounced) or (pronounced), known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pogi, [1] was the most powerful typhoon to strike South Korea since record-keeping began in the country in 1904. Maemi formed on 4 September 2003, from a disturbance in a monsoon trough in the western Pacific Ocean .