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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 ...
The 1944 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1944, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean .
1 Squadron (July 1942 - April 1944) [3] 3 Squadron (February 1943 - April 1944) [4] 4 Squadron - Tactical Fighter Reconnaissance Unit, part of Second Tactical Air Force - used a small number of Fighter Reconnaissance (FR) Typhoons. [1] (October 1944 - January 1945) [4] 56 Squadron (September 1941 - May 1944) [5] 137 Squadron (January 1944 ...
The top-scoring Typhoon ace was Group Captain J. R. Baldwin (609 Squadron and Commanding Officer 198 Squadron, 146 (Typhoon) Wing and 123 (Typhoon) Wing), who claimed 15 aircraft shot down from 1942 to 1944. Some 246 Axis aircraft were claimed by Typhoon pilots during the war.
Fourth latest start for a Pacific typhoon season and second latest start for the first named system to develop. 2017: 42: 27: 11: 2 VSTY Lan (Paolo) 853: $15.1 billion TY Hato TS Kai-tak TY Tembin TS Urduja TY Vinta: Second latest start for a typhoon to develop since 1998, first since 1977 not to produce a Category 5 typhoon. 2018: 45: 29: 13 ...
Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) on November 7, 2013, one of the strongest Pacific typhoons ever recorded.. Since 1947, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) has classified all typhoons in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean with wind speeds of at least 130 knots (67 m/s; 150 mph; 240 km/h)—the equivalent of a strong Category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson scale, as super typhoons. [1]
The following is a list of tropical cyclones by year. Since the year 957, there have been at least 12,791 recorded tropical or subtropical cyclones in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, which are known as basins. Collectively, tropical cyclones caused more than US$1.2 trillion in damage, unadjusted for inflation, and have killed more ...
This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1944 Atlantic hurricane season; 1944 Pacific typhoon season; H. Holmfirth floods; T. Typhoon Cobra