Super Typhoon Category 5 landfalls

[HurricaneBill]

Ever wonder which super typhoons made landfall as Category 5 storms?

Well, I'm gonna tell you anyway.

After looking at weather.unisys, I came up with a list. Fortunately, I had made lists of the typhoon names a while back when weather.unisys listed their names.

Anyways, the no-brainer is that the Philippines have had the most Category 5 landfalls.

Here are 22 super typhoons that made landfall as Category 5 storms and where they made landfall.

1952 Super Typhoon Della (Philippines) (Unfortunately, info on Della is little if any on the internet.)

1954 Super Typhoon Sally (Philippines) (Also not much info on the internet)

1958 Super Typhoon Winnie (Taiwan) (Winnie left 24 dead or missing)

1959 Super Typhoon Joan (Taiwan) (Joan left 14 dead or missing)

1959 Super Typhoon Vera (Japan) (Vera is one of Japan's worst disasters. Vera left 5238 dead or missing.)

1959 Super Typhoon Gilda (Philippines) (Gilda left 23 dead or missing)

1961 Super Typhoon Nancy (Naze, an island just NE of Okinawa) (Nancy left 225 dead or missing in Japan)

1962 Super Typhoon Opal (Taiwan) (Opal left 75 dead or missing)

1962 Super Typhoon Karen (Guam) (One of the most powerful typhoons to make landfall on Guam. Karen left 12 dead.)

1964 Super Typhoon Louise (Philippines) (louise left 58 dead or missing)

1965 Super Typhoon Freda (Philippines)

1966 Super Typhoon Cora (China)

1970 Super Typhoon Georgia (Philippines) (Georgia left 300 dead or missing)

1970 Super Typhoon Joan (Philippines) (Joan left 776 dead or missing)

1987 Super Typhoon Betty (Philippines) (Betty left 200 dead or missing)

1987 Super Typhoon Nina (Philippines) (Nina left 1200 dead or missing)

1989 Super Typhoon Gordon (Philippines) (Gordon left 118 dead or missing)

1989 Super Typhoon Elsie (Philippines) (Elsie left 47 dead or missing)

1989 Super Typhoon Gay (India) (Gay left 1124 dead or missing. However, only 39 deaths occured in India. This was mainly due to Gay's small compact size and her landfall in a rural area of India.)

1995 Super Typhoon Angela (Philippines) (Angela left 1252 dead or missing after making landfall with sustained winds of 155 knots (178 mph))

1998 Super Typhoon Zeb (Philippines) (Zeb left 131 dead or missing)

2000 Super Typhoon Bilis (Taiwan) (Bilis left 71 dead or missing)

[Hurricanehink]

Wow, good work. Poor Phillipines. 2 Cat. 5's on two occasions.

[HURAKAN]

Is not easy to have a tropical life in the WPAC!

[Derek Ortt]

One thing I'd like to mention.

When doing the HRD briefings this past year, I noticed that JTWC and JMA not only disagree on wind speed (due to 1 min vs 10 min), but also in terms of pressure. JTWC is typically 40 mb too low with the pressures, while JMA has been closer to reality, at least in the last few seasons. Therefore, some of those super typhoons may not have been as such

[Aslkahuna]

JTWC is basing their pressure upon the windspeed that the Dvorak analysis gives them along with the wind/pressure relationship they developed in the 1970's using recon observations. In recent years, however, it has been noted that late (and I suspect early as well) season storms have higher pressures for a given intensity since the ambient pressures surrounding the storms is more like the ATL region than WPAC during the height of the monsoon. This was definitely true for Paka in Guam and probably Pongsana as well. Another example was TY Gay in 1992-Jim Leonard noted a minimum pressure of 969 mb at Barrigada when Gay went over but it was rated at a Cat 2 intensity which would have required a pressure of 958 mb based upon the wind/pressure relationship. Gay was a late November storm.

Steve

[HurricaneBill]

One thing I'd like to mention.

When doing the HRD briefings this past year, I noticed that JTWC and JMA not only disagree on wind speed (due to 1 min vs 10 min), but also in terms of pressure. JTWC is typically 40 mb too low with the pressures, while JMA has been closer to reality, at least in the last few seasons. Therefore, some of those super typhoons may not have been as such

Why did I have the feeling you were gonna say that?