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The following list are the fourteen most deadly storms that impacted the Philippines from 2000. Storms that are known to have killed at least 100 people are included in this list. Only six storms have exceeded the death toll of 1,000. Total number of deaths recorded are only from the country itself.
The following list are the deadliest storms that impacted the Philippines between 1963 and 1999. This list only includes typhoons that had death tolls exceeding 300. Only two storms exceeded death numbers above 1,000: Thelma (Uring) and Ike (Nitang). The total number of deaths recorded are only from the country itself.
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 ...
This is a list of the deadliest tropical cyclones, including all known storms that caused at least 1,000 direct deaths. There were at least 76 tropical cyclones in the 20th century with a death toll of 1,000 or more, including the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history.
The Philippines is a typhoon-prone country, with approximately twenty tropical cyclones entering its area of responsibility per year. Locally known generally as bagyo (), [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less often, in the South China Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being the month with the most activity.
2003 – a Category 4 typhoon that stayed out at open sea. 2019† – struck the Philippines as a Category 4 typhoon, killing a total of 17 people. Titli (2018) – a deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage to Eastern India in October 2018. Todd (1998) – a Category 4 super typhoon that mainly affected southern ...
The Hong Kong Observatory put the storm's maximum ten-minute sustained winds at 285 km/h (175 mph) [4] prior to landfall in the central Philippines, while the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) estimated the maximum two-minute sustained winds at the time to be around 78 m/s (280 km/h or 175 mph).
1947 – a Category 4 typhoon, hit Philippines. 1956 – Tropical storm that caused 27 deaths in Mexico. 1964† – a Category 4 hurricane tha made landfall near St. Augustine, Florida, with winds of 110 mph (175 km/h). 1964 – hit Australia. 1971† – widespread structural damage was reported with power lines down and roofs removed.