&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Wiki_letter_w.svg){kind=small} | This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. (November 2023) |
&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Ma-on_2004-10-08_0405Z.jpg) Typhoon Ma-on on October 8 | |
| Meteorological history | |
|---|---|
| Formed | October 3, 2004 |
| Dissipated | October 10, 2004 |
| Very strong typhoon | |
| 10-minute sustained (JMA) | |
| Highest winds | 185 km/h (115 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 920 hPa (mbar); 27.17 inHg |
| Category 5-equivalent super typhoon | |
| 1-minute sustained (SSHWS/JTWC) | |
| Highest winds | 260 km/h (160 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 898 hPa (mbar); 26.52 inHg |
| Overall effects | |
| Fatalities | 7 |
| Missing | 2 |
| Damage | $623 million (2004 USD) |
| Areas affected | Japan, Alaska |
| IBTrACS | |
Part of the 2004 Pacific typhoon season | |
Typhoon Ma-on, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Rolly, was a powerful typhoon that produced record breaking wind gusts across the Tokyo Metropolitan Area during October 2004. The twenty-second named storm of the 2004 Pacific typhoon season, Ma-on was the second of three consecutive storms to hit Japan during the period between late-September to mid-October 2004.