&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Typhoon_Dinah%27s_Weather_map_on_June_22,_1952.jpg) This weather map on June 22 shows Dinah nearing peak intensity while located to the south of Japan. | |
| Meteorological history | |
|---|---|
| Formed | June 19, 1950 |
| Extratropical | June 25 |
| Dissipated | June 26, 1950 |
| Unknown-strength storm | |
| 10-minute sustained (JMA) | |
| Lowest pressure | 960 hPa (mbar); 28.35 inHg |
| Category 1-equivalent typhoon | |
| 1-minute sustained (SSHWS/JTWC) | |
| Highest winds | 140 km/h (85 mph) |
| Overall effects | |
| Fatalities | 65 confirmed |
| Missing | 70 |
| Damage | Unknown |
| Areas affected | Philippines, Taiwan, Japan |
Part of the 1952 Pacific typhoon season | |
Typhoon Dinah was a tropical cyclone that brought heavy damages to Japan, while leaving 65 fatalities and 70 to be missing, all in that country alone. It is also one of the disasters that happened in the country during the Showa 27 era. The second typhoon of the 1952 Pacific typhoon season, Dinah was first mentioned in weather maps as a tropical depression to the east of Visayas. It gradually organized, becoming a tropical storm on June 21 as it skirted the northeastern Philippines, with the Fleet Weather Center naming it Dinah. It strengthened further to a minimal typhoon as it moved through the Nansei Islands on June 22, before reaching its peak intensity of 140 km/h (85 mph), as estimated by the Fleet Center. It then weakened shortly, before passing near Shikoku on the next day, then making landfall through the southern part of the Kii Peninsula before gradually weakened further and started to undergo extratropical transition as it moved out of the country on June 24. It then became fully extratropical on the next day.