Typhoon Hagupit (2020)

Typhoon Hagupit (Dindo)
Typhoon Hagupit approaching China near peak intensity on August 3
Meteorological history
FormedJuly 30, 2020
ExtratropicalAugust 5
DissipatedAugust 14, 2020[1]
Typhoon
10-minute sustained (JMA)
Highest winds130 km/h (80 mph)
Lowest pressure975 hPa (mbar); 28.79 inHg
Category 1-equivalent typhoon
1-minute sustained (SSHWS/JTWC)
Highest winds140 km/h (85 mph)
Lowest pressure971 hPa (mbar); 28.67 inHg
Overall effects
Fatalities17 total
Missing11
Damage$1.5 billion (2020 USD)
Areas affectedRyukyu Islands, Taiwan, East China, Korean Peninsula, Kamchatka Peninsula, Alaska
IBTrACS

Part of the 2020 Pacific typhoon season

Typhoon Hagupit, known in the Philippines as Severe Tropical Storm Dindo, was a Category 1 typhoon that heavily impacted Eastern China and South Korea in August 2020. It was the fourth named storm and the second typhoon of the annual typhoon season. The JMA began monitoring a tropical depression that developed in the Philippine Sea on July 30, with PAGASA assigning the name “Dindo” to the storm, later that day it strengthened into a tropical storm, according to the JMA. PAGASA issued its final advisory on Dindo early on August 3, as it moved out of their area of responsibility. Hagupit intensified into a typhoon on August 3, before making landfall in Wenzhou, China at 19:30 UTC that day at peak intensity. Hagupit subsequently weakened over China, before degenerating into an extratropical low on August 5. Hagupit's remnants persisted for another several days, as the storm moved eastward, before dissipating south of Alaska on August 14.

Hagupit caused over a foot of rainfall in portions of Eastern China and South Korea. Hagupit caused 17 fatalities due to bringing heavy rains in the Korean Peninsula, and triggered a landslide which killed 6 people. Damage totals was reported to be at US$1.5 billion.

  1. ^ "HIGH SEAS FORECAST". Ocean Prediction Center. August 14, 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020 – via Iowa Environmental Mesonet.