<P> Intensification slowed somewhat during the day, though the JTWC estimated the storm to have attained Category 5 - equivalent super typhoon status on the Saffir--Simpson hurricane wind scale around 1200 UTC . Later, the eye of the typhoon passed over the island of Kayangel in Palau . </P> <P> Around 1200 UTC on November 7, Haiyan attained ten - minute sustained winds of 230 km / h (145 mph) and a minimum central pressure of 895 mbar (hPa; 26.43 inHg). Six hours later, the JTWC estimated Haiyan to have attained one - minute sustained winds of 315 km / h (195 mph) and gusts up to 380 km / h (235 mph). The storm displayed some characteristics of an annular tropical cyclone, though a strong convective band remained present along the western side of the system . </P> <P> At 2040 UTC on November 7, Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Guiuan, Eastern Samar at peak intensity . The JTWC's unofficial estimate of one - minute sustained winds of 305 km / h (190 mph) would, by that measure, make Haiyan the most powerful storm ever recorded to strike land . Interaction with land caused slight degradation of the storm's structure, though it remained an exceptionally powerful storm when it struck Tolosa, Leyte around 2300 UTC . The typhoon made four additional landfalls as it traversed the Visayas: Daanbantayan, Bantayan Island, Concepcion, and Busuanga Island . </P> <P> Haiyan, with its core disrupted by interaction with the Philippines, emerged over the South China Sea late on November 8 . Environmental conditions ahead of the storm soon became less favorable, as cool stable air began wrapping into the western side of the circulation . Continuing across the South China Sea, Haiyan turned more northwesterly late on November 9 and through November 10 as it moved around the southwestern edge of the subtropical ridge previously steering it westward . Rapid weakening ensued as Haiyan approached its final landfall in Vietnam, ultimately striking the country near Haiphong around 2100 UTC as a severe tropical storm . Once onshore, the storm quickly diminished and was last noted as it dissipated over Guangxi Province, China, on November 11 . </P>

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