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Typhoon Vera, also known as the Isewan Typhoon (伊勢湾台風, Ise-wan Taifū), was an exceptionally intense tropical cyclone that struck Japan in September 1959, becoming the strongest and deadliest typhoon on record to make landfall on the country, as well as the only one to do so as a Category 5 equivalent storm.
The 1959 Pacific typhoon season was regarded as one of the most devastating years for Pacific typhoons on record, with China, Japan and South Korea sustaining catastrophic losses. [1] It was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The season had no official bounds, but tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific Ocean normally ...
The most destructive was Typhoon Vera (known in Japan as the Isewan Typhoon), with 5,000 casualties in the Tokai region in September 1959. The costliest to affect Japan (and the second costliest in the Western Pacific basin when not adjusted for inflation) was Typhoon Hagibis (also known as the Reiwa 1 East Japan Typhoon), which caused $17.3 ...
List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1959 Ship State Description Laura T Gabriella Italy: The coaster sank in a storm off Antipaxos, Greece. All eight crew killed. [5] Adele Andolo Italy: The coaster foundered 40 nautical miles (74 km) south of Malta. Five of her eleven crew were killed, six were rescued by the Admiralty tug Mediator ( United Kingdom ...
Typhoon Vera: Typhoon and tidal surge 26 Sep 1959: mainly, Ise Bay, Aichi Prefecture and Mie Prefecture: Also known as the Ise Bay Typhoon. 3,769: 1948 Fukui earthquake: Earthquake 28 Jun 1948: Fukui Prefecture: The earthquake occurred on a strike-slip fault that was previously unknown until this event. 3,756: 1945 Makurazaki typhoon: Typhoon ...
Tropical Storm Vera (1951) (T5118) – A minimal tropical storm that made landfall as a weakening depression in Vietnam. Typhoon Vera (1956) (T5605) Typhoon Vera (1959) (T5915, 39W) – Hit Japan and over 5,000 were killed.
The "Isewan Typhoon", also known as Typhoon Vera, killed more than 5,000 people in Japan, injuring over 32,000 and leaving 1.5 million people homeless after striking Nagoya. The strongest storm ever recorded in Japan, the typhoon had winds as high as 160 miles per hour (260 km/h) and brought a 17-foot (5.2 m) high wave inland, then moved across ...
On September 26, 1959, the Ise-wan Typhoon (Typhoon Vera) devastated the Ise Bay area. Rising tidal levels and pounding surf collapsed banks and inundated low-lying areas of the coast. 5,041 people were killed or missing, 38,921 were injured, and 149,187 houses were totally or partially destroyed.