&sq=&lang=&file=File:GildaJuly419740045UTC.gif) Typhoon Gilda on July 4 | |
| Meteorological history | |
|---|---|
| Formed | June 29, 1974 |
| Extratropical | July 9 |
| Dissipated | July 17, 1974 |
| Unknown-strength storm | |
| 10-minute sustained (JMA) | |
| Lowest pressure | 945 hPa (mbar); 27.91 inHg |
| Category 2-equivalent typhoon | |
| 1-minute sustained (SSHWS/JTWC) | |
| Highest winds | 165 km/h (105 mph) |
| Overall effects | |
| Fatalities | 145 total |
| Missing | 1 |
| Damage | $1.5 billion (1974 USD) |
| Areas affected | Northern Mariana Islands, Nansei Islands, South Korea, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Soviet Far East |
| IBTrACS | |
Part of the 1974 Pacific typhoon season | |
Typhoon Gilda, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Deling was a destructive, deadly, costly and long-lived tropical cyclone that left over 145 confirmed deaths over Japan and South Korea, mostly due to torrential rainfall that induced landslides, all generated by the typhoon and its associated meiyu front. The eighth named storm and third typhoon of the 1974 Pacific typhoon season, the system was first noted by the China Meteorological Agency as an area of convection embedded on a trough, to the north of Enewetak Atoll on June 25. It was named Gilda on June 30 as it strengthened to a tropical storm. Under a favorable environment, it strengthened to a typhoon two days later as it moved northwestward. Another trough pulled Gilda poleward while changing less in intensity, until it intensified to a Category 2 typhoon as it battered the Ryukyu Islands at its peak. Increasing wind shear gradually weakened the system; however, it remained as a minimal typhoon until it passed through the southern tip of South Korea on July 6, where it weakened to a tropical storm. Colder waters in the Sea of Japan and high shear further degraded Gilda, until it transitioned to an extratropical low as it made landfall near Hokkaido on July 9. The remnants of the system briefly intensified near the Kuril Islands before weakening and dissipating on July 17 over the Sea of Okhotsk.
Gilda was responsible for over 145 fatalities and a missing person as it affected South Korea and the Japanese archipelago, including the Nansei Islands. Widespread flooding and landslides also occurred, which was more worsened by an active frontal system over Shanghai. The total damages from the system were at $1.5 billion (1974 USD).