Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Yolanda, was
one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded. On making
landfall, Haiyan devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly
the Philippines. It is one of the deadliest Philippine typhoons on
record, killing at least 6,300 people in that country alone. In terms
of JTWC-estimated 1-minute sustained winds, Haiyan is tied with
Meranti in 2016 for being the second strongest landfalling tropical
cyclone on record, only behind Goni in 2020. In January 2014, bodies
were still being found.The thirtieth named storm, thirteenth typhoon,
and fifth super typhoon of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season, Haiyan
originated from an area of low pressure several hundred kilometers
east-southeast of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia on
November 2, 2013. Tracking generally westward, environmental
conditions favored tropical cyclogenesis and the system developed into
a tropical depression on the following day. After becoming a tropical
storm and being named Haiyan at 00:00 UTC on November 4, the system
began a period of rapid intensification that brought it to typhoon
intensity by 18:00 UTC on November 5. By November 6, the Joint Typhoon
Warning Center (JTWC) assessed the system as a Category 5-equivalent
super typhoon on the Saffirâ€"Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS);
the storm passed over the island of Kayangel in Palau shortly after
attaining this strength.Thereafter, Haiyan continued to intensify; at
12:00 UTC on November 7, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)
upgraded the storm's maximum ten-minute sustained winds to 230 km/h
(145 mph), the highest in relation to the storm. The Hong Kong
Observatory put the storm's maximum ten-minute sustained winds at 285
km/h (180 mph) prior to landfall in the central Philippines, while the
China Meteorological Administration estimated the maximum two-minute
sustained winds at the time to be around 78 m/s (280 km/h or 175 mph).
At the same time, the JTWC estimated the system's one-minute sustained
winds at 315 km/h (195 mph), unofficially making Haiyan the strongest
tropical cyclone ever observed based on wind speed, a record which
would later be surpassed by Hurricane Patricia in 2015 at 345 km/h
(215 mph). Haiyan is also tied with Meranti in 2016 and Goni in 2020
as the most intense tropical cyclone in the Eastern Hemisphere by
1-minute sustained winds; several others have recorded lower central
pressure readings. At 20:40 UTC on November 7, the eye of the typhoon
made its first landfall in the Philippines at Guiuan, Eastern Samar at
peak strength. Gradually weakening, the storm made five additional
landfalls in the country before emerging over the South China Sea.
Turning northwestward, the typhoon eventually struck northern Vietnam
as a severe tropical storm on November 10. Haiyan was last noted as a
tropical depression by the JMA on the following day. Typhoon Haiyan Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter