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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.
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.
Typhoon Sarah (1951) Typhoon Sarah (1956) Typhoon Sarah (1959) – Category 5-equivalent typhoon that devastated South Korea, killing at least 2,000 people; also known as the Miyakojima Typhoon; Typhoon Sarah (1962) Tropical Storm Sarah (1965) (T6503, 03W) Tropical Storm Sarah (1971) (T7101, 01W) Tropical Storm Sarah (1973) (T7319, 21W)
Typhoon Sarah (1959) V. Typhoon Vera This page was last edited on 19 December 2023, at 17:55 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
It reached its peak intensity with 105 mph winds. It made landfall in Philippines as a category 2 typhoon and this made Polly to weaken to a tropical storm and dissipated. On Philippines, Polly brought 105 mph winds and 11 inch rains in the Philippines on December 8. The typhoon killed 79 people and left $2.5 million (1956 dollars) in damage.
Typhoon Sarah, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Openg, was a powerful typhoon that caused extensive damage along an erratic path across the Western Pacific in September 1989. Originating from a disturbance within a monsoon trough in early September, Sarah was first classified as a tropical depression near the Mariana Islands on September 5.
June 29–30, 1964: Typhoon Winnie (Dading) passes over Southern Luzon and Metro Manila, with Manila experiencing the worst typhoon since 1882.Approximately 500,000 people were rendered homeless in the Manila area and in the central provinces of Luzon following the razing of thousands of homes; [2] 10 people were killed by flooding in the capital. [3]
Slowly gaining strength, the storm, now named Sarah, became a typhoon on that afternoon. Sarah soon started making a loop on August 16 and August 17, peaking at winds of 85 mph (140 mp/h) and an internal pressure of 978 millibars. Soon crossing its former track on the afternoon of August 18, Sarah continued northward as a typhoon, striking ...