Records
| Total Storms |
Year | Tropical Storms |
Typhoons | Super Typhoons |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 1964 | 13 | 19 | 7 |
| 35 | 1965 1967 1971 |
14 15 11 |
10 16 16 |
11 4 4 |
| 34 | 1994 | 14 | 14 | 6 |
| 33 | 1996 | 12 | 15 | 6 |
| 32 | 1974 | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| 31 | 1989 1992 |
10 9 |
15 17 |
6 5 |
| 30 | 1962 1966 1972 1990 2004 |
7 10 8 9 10 |
17 17 20 17 13 |
6 3 2 4 7 |
The most active Western Pacific typhoon season was in 1964, when 39 storms of tropical storm strength formed. The least activity seen in the northwest Pacific ocean was during the 2010 Pacific typhoon season, when only 14 tropical storms and seven typhoons formed. In the Philippines, the most active season, since 1945, for tropical cyclone strikes was 1993 when nineteen tropical cyclones moved through the country. There was only one tropical cyclone which moved through the Philippines in 1958. The 2004 Pacific typhoon season was the busiest for Okinawa since 1957. Within Guangdong in southern China, during the past thousand years, the most active decades for typhoon strikes were the 1660s and 1670s.
The most intense storm on record was Typhoon Tip in the northwestern Pacific Ocean in 1979, which reached a minimum pressure of 870 hectopascals (26 inHg) and maximum sustained wind speeds of 165 knots (85 m/s, 190 mph, 310 km/h). The deadliest typhoon of the 20th century was Typhoon Nina killed nearly 100,000 in China in 1975 due to a flood that caused 12 reservoirs to fail. After Typhoon Morakot landed in Taiwan at midnight on August 8, 2009, almost the entire southern region of Taiwan (Chiayi County/Chiayi City, Tainan County/Tainan City (now merged as Tainan), Kaohsiung County/Kaohsiung City (now merged as Kaohsiung), and Pingtung County) and parts of Taitung County and Nantou County were flooded by record-breaking heavy rain. The rainfall in Pingtung County reached 2,327 millimetres (91.6 in), breaking all rainfall records of any single place in Taiwan induced by a single typhoon, and making the cyclone the wettest known typhoon.
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