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The name Harriet has been used for eleven tropical cyclones worldwide: seven in the Western Pacific Ocean, one in the South-West Indian Ocean, and three in the Australian Region of the Indian Ocean. In the Western Pacific: Typhoon Harriet (1952) – hit China as a Category 3-equivalent typhoon. Typhoon Harriet (1956) – struck Japan.
Tropical Storm Harriet was a rather weak but extremely deadly tropical cyclone that hit Thailand and East Pakistan in October 1962. It formed in the South China Sea before making landfall in Southern Thailand and crossing the Malay Peninsula into the Bay of Bengal .
Tropical cyclones are named for historical reasons and so as to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one tropical cyclone can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. They are usually assigned to tropical cyclones with one-, three-, or ten-minute windspeeds of at least 65 km/h (40 mph).
This is a list of the deadliest tropical cyclones, including all known storms that caused at least 1,000 direct deaths. There were at least 76 tropical cyclones in the 20th century with a death toll of 1,000 or more, including the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history.
1.8 Moderate Tropical Storm Harriet. 1.9 Tropical Cyclone Ingrid. ... The 1963–64 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was an average cyclone season. Systems
After criss-crossing the country, Harriet weakened into a low on October 26 in the open waters of the Indian Ocean. [4] The destruction from Tropical Storm Harriet took the lives of at least 769 residents of Thailand's southern provinces. 142 others were also deemed missing as of November 4, with over 252 severe injuries.
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Cyclone Freddy. Category 4 is the second-highest classification on the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale which is used to classify tropical cyclones, that have 10-minute sustained winds of at least wind speeds of 86–107 knots (159–198 km/h; 99–123 mph).