&sq=&lang=&file=File:Tembin_Aug_20_2012_0235Z.jpg) Typhoon Tembin shortly before peak intensity on August 20, 2012. | |
| Meteorological history | |
|---|---|
| Formed | August 17, 2012 |
| Extratropical | August 30, 2012 |
| Dissipated | September 1, 2012 |
| Typhoon | |
| 10-minute sustained (JMA) | |
| Highest winds | 150 km/h (90 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 950 hPa (mbar); 28.05 inHg |
| Category 4-equivalent typhoon | |
| 1-minute sustained (SSHWS/JTWC) | |
| Highest winds | 220 km/h (140 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 933 hPa (mbar); 27.55 inHg |
| Overall effects | |
| Fatalities | 10 total |
| Damage | $6.67 million (2012 USD) |
| Areas affected | Philippines, Taiwan, China, Japan, South Korea |
| IBTrACS | |
Part of the 2012 Pacific typhoon season | |
Typhoon Tembin, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Igme, was an intense tropical cyclone in the Western Pacific Ocean that had an unusual trajectory, approaching Taiwan twice. Tembin, which means balancing scale or Libra in Japanese, was the eighth typhoon and the fourteenth named storm of the 2012 Pacific typhoon season. After making landfall over the southern tip of Taiwan late on August 23, Tembin weakened but regained strength in the South China Sea, looping before making a second landfall on southern Taiwan as a tropical storm on August 27; however, the system did not restrengthen in the East China Sea, and made landfall over South Korea on August 30 before becoming extratropical.