Typhoon Soudelor
| Typhoon (JMA scale) | |
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| Category 5 (Saffir–Simpson scale) | |
Typhoon Soudelor at peak intensity on August 4
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| Formed | July 29, 2015 |
| Dissipated | August 12, 2015 |
| (Extratropical after August 11) | |
| Highest winds |
10-minute sustained: 215 km/h (130 mph) 1-minute sustained: 285 km/h (180 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 900 hPa (mbar); 26.58 inHg |
| Fatalities | 40 confirmed |
| Damage | $3.72 billion (2015 USD) |
| Areas affected | Mariana Islands, Japan, Philippines, Taiwan, China, South Korea |
| Part of the 2015 Pacific typhoon season | |
Typhoon Soudelor, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Hanna, was the second most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2015 as well as the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2015 Pacific typhoon season. Soudelor had severe impacts in the Northern Mariana Islands, Taiwan, and eastern China, resulting in 40 confirmed fatalities. Lesser effects were felt in Japan, South Korea and the Philippines. The thirteenth named storm of the annual typhoon season, Soudelor formed as a tropical depression near Pohnpei on July 29. The system strengthened slowly at first before entering a period of rapid intensification on August 2. Soudelor made landfall on Saipan later that day, causing extensive damage. Owing to favorable environmental conditions, the typhoon further deepened and reached its peak intensity with ten-minute maximum sustained winds of 215 km/h (130 mph) and a central atmospheric pressure of 900 hPa (mbar; 26.58 inHg) on August 3. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center assessed one-minute sustained winds at 285 km/h (180 mph), making Soudelor a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon. Steady weakening ensued thereafter as the storm moved generally west-northwest. Soudelor made landfall over Hualien, Taiwan, late on August 7 and emerged over in the Taiwan Strait early the next day. The typhoon soon moved inland over eastern China and degraded to a tropical depression by August 9.
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