WORST TYPHOONS OF THE PHILIPPINES
1947 – 2002
NAME
PERIOD OF OCCURRENCE
1. URING (Thelma) 1
2. ROSING (Angela) 2
3. NITANG (Ike)
4. RUPING (Mike) 3
5. SENING (Joan) 4
6. LOLENG (Babs)
7. UNDANG (Agnes)
8. SISANG (Nina)
9. KADIANG (Flo)
10. AMY
11. TRIX
12. UNSANG (Ruby)
13. KADING (Rita)
14. YONING (Skip)
15. DINANG (Lee)
16. ANDING (Irma)
17. MONANG (Lola)
18. HERMING (Betty)
19. ILIANG (Zeb)
20. SALING (Dot)
21. TITANG (Kate)
22. FERIA (Utor)
23. DIDANG (Olga)
24. NANANG (LingLing)
25. YOLING (Patsy)
26. INING (Louise)
27. MAMENG (Sybil)
28. TRINING (Ruth)5
29. WELING (Nancy)
30. GADING (Peggy)
November 2-7, 1991
Oct.30–Nov.4, 1995
Aug.31 – Sept. 4, 1984
November 10-14, 1990
October 11-15, 1970
October 15-24, 1998
November 3-6, 1984
November 23-27, 1987
Sept.30 – Oct. 7, 1993
December 6-19, 1951
October 16-23, 1952
October 21-26, 1988
October 25-27, 1978
November 5-8, 1988
December 23-28, 1981
November 21-27, 1981
December 2-7, 1993
August 7-14, 1987
October 7-18, 1998
October 15-20, 1985
October 16-23, 1970
July 2-7, 2001
May 12-17, 1976
November 6-9, 2001
November 17-20, 1970
November 15-20, 1964
Sept.27 – Oct.1, 1995
October 16-31, 1991
October 11-15, 1982
July 6-10, 1986
HIGHEST WIND
SPEED RECORDED
95 kph
260 kph
220 kph
220 kph
275 kph
250 kph
230 kph
240 kph
130 kph
240 kph
215 kph
215 kph
185 kph
230 kph
175 kph
260 kph
170 kph
240 kph
260 kph
240 kph
95 kph
150 kph
150 kph
90 kph
200 kph
240 kph
140 kph
204 kph
130 kph
220 kph
PLACE
DEATHS
DAMAGE
IN PESOS
Tacloban
5,101-8,000+ 1.045 B
Virac
936
10.829
Surigao
1,363-3,000
4.100
Cebu
748
10.846
Virac
768
1.890
Virac
303
6.787
Tacloban
895
1.900
Legazpi
979
1.119
over water
576
8.752
Cebu
991
0.700
Legazpi
995
0.880
Virac
157
5.636
Virac
444
1.900
over water
217
2.767
Catarman
2, 764
0.640
Daet
409
0.650
Virac
363
2.463
Catarman
200+
2.066
over water
75
5.375
Daet
118
2.133
Cuyo
631
1.750
over water
188
3.586
Iba
374
1.160
over water
236
3.200
Manila (MIA)
611
0.460
Cebu
400
0.010
over water
116
3.170
Laoag
82
3.072
Tuguegarao
309
0.630
Vigan
106
0.679
LEGEND:
1 – The deadliest storm in the country (also the deadliest natural disaster of the Philippines)
2 – Probably the strongest typhoon in the Pacific rivaling Super Typhoon TIP in 1979
3 – The costliest typhoon up-to-date
4 – The typhoon with the strongest winds ever recorded and inflicted significant damage (although other typhoons have higher wind
speed but did not hit land or inflict any damage.
5- The first typhoon to raise Public Storm Signal # 4 in PAGASA’s 1991Revised Public Storm Signal from the former PSS# 1-3 to
PSS# 1-4.
over water – typhoon’s strongest winds were recorded while typhoon was still at sea but is closely approaching land
Underlined figures - are courtesy of PAGASA.
Bold and italicized figures - are combined information courtesy of NDCC, reliefweb.com, Manila Bulletin, Reuters and Unisys.
The rest of the figures came from NDCC and/or Typhoon2000.com
NOTES:
RUPING – this monstrous typhoon directly hit highly-urbanized cities of Cebu, Lapu-Lapu, Mandaue, Bacolod, Iloilo and the most
densely populated provinces of Visayas and Mindanao affecting 1,010,004 families or total affected persons of 5,498,290.
URING – although a weak tropical storm, it unleashed its fury in Leyte and Negros Occidental, creating flashfloods. Ormoc City,
Leyte suffered the worst with almost ¾ of the city destroyed, killing more than 5,000 people with more than 2,000 missing and were
presumed dead.
SOURCES: www.ndcc.gov.ph, www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph, www.typhoon2000.com, http://weather.unisys.com, www.reliefweb.com,
www.npmoc.navy.mil/jtwc