<Li> commons: Category: Typhoon Haiyan (2013) </Li> <P> Typhoon Haiyan was an extremely powerful and deadly typhoon, known as Super Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines . On making landfall, Haiyan devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines . It is the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record, killing at least 6,300 people in that country alone . In terms of JTWC - estimated 1 - minute sustained winds, Haiyan is tied with Meranti for being the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record . In January 2014, bodies were still being found . </P> <P> The thirtieth named storm of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season, Haiyan originated from an area of low pressure several hundred kilometers east - southeast of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia on November 2, 2013 . Tracking generally westward, environmental conditions favored tropical cyclogenesis and the system developed into a tropical depression the following day . After becoming a tropical storm and attaining the name Haiyan at 0000 UTC on November 4, the system began a period of rapid intensification that brought it to typhoon intensity by 1800 UTC on November 5 . By November 6, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) assessed the system as a Category 5 - equivalent super typhoon on the Saffir - Simpson hurricane wind scale; the storm passed over the island of Kayangel in Palau shortly after attaining this strength . </P> <P> Thereafter, it continued to intensify; at 1200 UTC on November 7, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) upgraded the storm's maximum ten - minute sustained winds to 230 km / h (145 mph), the highest in relation to the cyclone . The Hong Kong Observatory put the storm's maximum ten - minute sustained winds at 285 km / h (180 mph) prior to landfall in the central Philippines, while the China Meteorological Administration estimated the maximum two - minute sustained winds at the time to be around 78 m / s (280 km / h or 175 mph). At the same time, the JTWC estimated the system's one - minute sustained winds to 315 km / h (195 mph), unofficially making Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone ever observed based on wind speed, a record which would then be surpassed by Hurricane Patricia in 2015 at 345 km / h (215 mph). Haiyan is also tied with Typhoon Meranti in 2016 as the strongest tropical cyclone in the Eastern Hemisphere by 1 - minute sustained winds; several others have recorded lower central pressure readings . At 20: 04 UTC on November 7, the eye of the cyclone made its first landfall in the Philippines at Guiuan, Eastern Samar . Gradually weakening, the storm made five additional landfalls in the country before emerging over the South China Sea . Turning northwestward, the typhoon eventually struck northern Vietnam as a severe tropical storm on November 10 . Haiyan was last noted as a tropical depression by the JMA the following day . </P>

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