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The 1959 Pacific typhoon season was regarded as one of the most devastating years for Pacific typhoons on record, with China, Japan and South Korea sustaining catastrophic losses. [1] It was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The season had no official bounds, but tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific Ocean normally ...
Typhoon Charlotte was a damaging typhoon that struck Okinawa during the 1959 Pacific typhoon season. An area of low pressure developed in early October, and it became a tropical depression on October 9. The depression strengthened to a tropical storm one day later, and it received the name Charlotte from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC ...
Typhoon Sarah, known as the Miyakojima Typhoon in Japan, was a destructive typhoon which was one of the strongest storms on record to strike South Korea and Russia.It formed during the peak of the busy 1959 Pacific typhoon season near Guam, and moved generally to the west-northwest.
Typhoon Joan was an intense typhoon that caused minor damages in relative to the strength of the typhoon. Joan was the strongest typhoon of 1959 Pacific typhoon season , and one of the most intense Pacific typhoons on record.
Part of the 1959 Pacific typhoon season Typhoon Vera , also known as the Isewan Typhoon ( 伊勢湾台風 , Ise-wan Taifū ) , was an exceptionally intense tropical cyclone that struck Japan in September 1959, becoming the strongest and deadliest typhoon on record to make landfall on the country, as well as the only one to do so as a Category 5 ...
Typhoon Emma was a strong typhoon that struck Okinawa during the 1959 Pacific typhoon season.An area of severe weather formed near Kwajalein Atoll on October 30, and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) began tracking it as a tropical depression on November 1.
The season officially started on May 15, 1959 in the Eastern Pacific, and ended on November 30, 1959. The strongest storm was Hurricane Patsy, the first Category 5 hurricane recorded in the Central Pacific basin, which reached 175 miles per hour (282 km/h) winds.
Part of the 1959 Pacific typhoon season Typhoon Billie was the first typhoon officially monitored by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center . The storm brought floods to several East Asian countries in July 1959.