Super Typhoon Yolanda

Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
Typhoon (JMA scale)
Category 5 (Saffir–Simpson scale)
Typhoon Haiyan at peak intensity on November 7
Formed	November 3, 2013
Dissipated	November 11, 2013


Highest winds	10-minute sustained: 230 km/h (145 mph) 1-minute sustained: 315 km/h (195 mph)
Lowest pressure	895 hPa (mbar); 26.43 inHg


Fatalities	6,340 confirmed, 1,061 missing
Damage	$2.86 billion (2013 USD) (Preliminary total)
Areas affected	Caroline Islands, Philippines, South China, Vietnam

Part of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season
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Costliest Philippine typhoons

Rank	Name	Year	PHP	USD
1	Haiyan (Yolanda)	2013	89.6 billion	2.02 billion
2	Bopha (Pablo)	2012	42.2 billion	1.04 billion
3	Rammasun (Glenda)	2014	38.6 billion	871 million
4	Parma (Pepeng)	2009	27.3 billion	608 million
5	Nesat (Pedring)	2011	15 billion	333 million
6	Fengshen (Frank)	2008	13.5 billion	301 million
7	Koppu (Lando)	2015	11 billion	236 million
8	Megi (Juan)	2010	11 billion	255 million
9	Ketsana (Ondoy)	2009	11 billion	244 million
10	Mike (Ruping)	1990	10.8 billion	241 million

Sources Destructive Typhoons from 1970 until 2003 by NDRRMC. Situation Report No. 50 of the Effects of TS Ondoy and TY Pepeng by NDRRMC. Situation Report No. 27 of the Effects of TS Juan by NDRRMC. Situation Report No. 38 of the Effects of TY Pablo by the NDRRMC. NDRRMC Updates re Effects of TY YOLANDA (HAIYAN) NDRRMC FINAL REPORT re Effects of Typhoon "GLENDA" (RAMMASUN) SitRep No.26 re Preparedness Measures and Effects of Typhoon LANDO (KOPPU)

Deadliest Philippine typhoons


Rank	Typhoon	Year	Deaths
1	September 1881 Typhoon	1881	7004200000000000000♠20,000
2	Haiyan (Yolanda)	2013	7003630000000000000♠6,300
3	Thelma (Uring)	1991	7003510000000000000♠5,100
4	Bopha (Pablo)	2012	7003190100000000000♠1,901
5	"Angela Typhoon"	1867	7003180000000000000♠1,800
6	Winnie	2004	7003161900000000000♠1,619
7	October 1897 Typhoon	1897	7003150000000000000♠1,500
8	Ike (Nitang)	1984	7003136300000000000♠1,363
9	Washi (Sendong)	2011	7003126800000000000♠1,268
10	Trix	1952	7002995000000000000♠995

Sources Philippine Storm Surge History by Project NOAH of PAGASA. Deadliest typhoons in the Philippines article published by ABS-CBN News on November 8, 2013. Worst Typhoons in the Philippines according to Typhoon 2000. NDRRMC Updates re Effects of TY YOLANDA (HAIYAN) by the NDRRMC on April 15, 2014. Historical deadly typhoons in the Philippines journal published in July 2008 by Pedro Ribera, Ricardo Garcia-Herrera and Luis Gimeno.

History

Response

Typhoon Haiyan, known as Super Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, was one of the most intense tropical cyclones on record, which devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, on November 8, 2013. It is the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record, killing at least 6,300 people in that country alone. Haiyan is also the strongest storm recorded at landfall. In January 2014, bodies were still being found.

The thirtieth named storm of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season, Haiyan originated from an area of low pressure several hundred kilometers east-southeast of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia on November 2, 2013. Tracking generally westward, environmental conditions favored tropical cyclogenesis and the system developed into a tropical depression the following day. After becoming a tropical storm and attaining the name Haiyan at 0000 UTC on November 4, the system began a period of rapid intensification that brought it to typhoon intensity by 1800 UTC on November 5. By November 6, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) assessed the system as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale; the storm passed over the island of Kayangel in Palau shortly after attaining this strength.

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