Typhoon Vicki

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Typhoon Vicki (Gading)

Typhoon Vicki on September 22, 1998
Meteorological history
Formed	September 17, 1998 (September 17, 1998)
Dissipated	September 22, 1998 (September 22, 1998)
Typhoon
10-minute sustained (JMA)
Highest winds	140 km/h (85 mph)
Lowest pressure	960 hPa (mbar); 28.35 inHg
Category 2-equivalent typhoon
1-minute sustained (SSHWS/JTWC)
Highest winds	165 km/h (105 mph)
Overall effects
Fatalities	108 total
Missing	10
Damage	$1.86 billion (1998 USD)
Areas affected	Philippines, Japan
IBTrACS
Part of the 1998 Pacific typhoon season

Typhoon Vicki, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Gading, was a typhoon that was notable for having a strange eastward-northeastward track through the Philippines and Japan. The eleventh tropical depression, seventh named tropical storm and fourth typhoon of the inactive 1998 Pacific typhoon season, Vicki originated from an area of disturbed weather in the South China Sea.^[1][2]