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Typhoon Cobra, also known as the Typhoon of 1944 or Halsey's Typhoon (named after Admiral William Halsey Jr.), was the United States Navy designation for a powerful tropical cyclone that struck the United States Pacific Fleet in December 1944, during World War II. The storm sank three destroyers, killed 790 sailors, damaged 9 other warships ...
By 10 a.m. local time the following morning, the barometer picked up a steep fall in pressure indicative of a typhoon ahead. Just a few hours later, hurricane-force winds and gusts up to 140 mph ...
On October 3, the system strengthened into a tropical storm and was given the name Freda, before becoming a typhoon later that day, while moving northeastward. The storm quickly intensified, reaching its peak as a Category 3 -equivalent typhoon on October 5, with maximum 1-minute sustained winds of 115 mph (185 km/h) and a minimum central ...
From early 1943 the wings were plumbed and adapted to carry cylindrical 45 imp gal (200 L; 54 US gal) drop tanks, [nb 15] increasing the Typhoon's range from 690 nautical miles (1,280 km) to up to 1,090 nautical miles (2,020 km). This enabled Typhoons to range deep into France, the Netherlands and Belgium.
A rescue boat along a flooded street following Super Typhoon Man-Yi, in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, on Nov. 18. (Lisa Marie David/Reuters) (REUTERS)
Name Hull number Ship class Location Date Cause Arizona: BB-39 Pennsylvania class: Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941: Sunk by bombers from aircraft carrier Hiryū: Oklahoma: BB-37 : Nevada class: Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941: Capsized by torpedo bombers from aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga and raised in 1943 but not repaired. Sank 17 May 1947 in a storm while being towed to San Francisco for ...
The 1958 and 2003 Presidents' Day storms were two of just 11 Northeast winter storms since 1950 to be classified as Category 4 on the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale , a 1-5 scale ranking of how ...
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