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According to a statement published on 11 September 2016, by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea's official state media, the country's northeast has been affected by the "heaviest downpour" since 1945, with "tens of thousands" of buildings destroyed and people left homeless and "suffering from great hardship".
Typhoon Lionrock, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Dindo, was a large, powerful, long-lived and erratic tropical cyclone which caused significant flooding and casualties in North Korea and Japan in late August 2016. It was the tenth named storm and was the third typhoon of the 2016 Pacific typhoon season. Damages recorded after the season ...
Flooding in North Korea killed 40 people. August 31 – September 15, 2016 – The remnants of Typhoon Lionrock hit North Korea, causing widespread flooding that led to the deaths of at least 525 people. This made Lionrock the deadliest typhoon to strike the Korean Peninsula since Typhoon Sarah 57 years prior. [36] [37] October 7, 2016 ...
2016 Atlantic hurricane season summary map. The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 2016. [15] It was an above average season and the most active since 2012, producing a total of 15 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 4 major hurricanes. The first storm, Hurricane Alex, developed on January 12, while the final system ...
2023 – Category 4 hurricane which made landfall as a tropical storm along the Baja California peninsula, dumping torrential rain there and in Southern California. Hilda; 1955 – a strong category 3 hurricane that was the second in a succession of three hurricanes to strike near Tampico, Mexico.
Pages in category "2016 disasters in North Korea" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 2016 North Korean ...
The first are the international names assigned to a tropical cyclone by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) or the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC). The second set of names are local names assigned to a tropical cyclone by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration. This system often ends up with a ...
2019 – a powerful Category 4 storm that passed through the Ryukyu Islands and Korea, and the strongest storm on record to strike North Korea. Lionrock; 2010 – a tropical storm that struck China. 2016 – a typhoon that looped south of Japan and struck eastern Japan, and also caused widespread flooding in North Korea; the storm killed 550 ...