User:Storm05/Typhoon Dan (1999)
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Typhoon Dan also known to PAGASA forecasters as Typhoon Pepang was the twenth sixth named storm, the tenth typhoon and the fourth major typhoon of the 1999 Pacific typhoon season. Dan formed on October 1 moved westward where it made landfall in the Philippines as a category 3 typhoon before recuriving and hitting China as a category 2 storm. Dan killed 31 people and lef $240 million dollars (1999 USD) in damage.
[edit] Storm history
A tropical depression formed on October 1 in an area of weak wind shear and moved westward where it continued to strengthen and became Tropical Storm Dan on October 3 and then a category 1 typhoon the following day. Typhoon Dan exhibited a banding type eye as continued to strengthen and by the 5th, Dan rapidly became a category 3 typhoon before making landfall on the northern Luzon coast. [1]
After moving across Luzon, Dan re-emerged back over the South China Sea where recurved slowly to the north and weakening to a moderate category 2 typhoon. Increasing wind shear caused Dan to weaken further before the storm made a second landfall near Xiamen, China on October 9. The landfall caused Dan to weaken rapidly from a typhoon to a 40 mph tropical storm as it moved inland. By October 10, Dan was downgraded to a tropical depression and on the 11th it merged with an extratropica storm over eastern China. [1]
[edit] Impact
Dan produced heavy flooding and landsides in both the Philippines and China which led to 31 deaths (10 in the Philippines , 30 in China) and left $240 million dollars (1999 USD) in damage.
[edit] Phillippines
266 millimeters of rain fell in a 12 hour period across the northern Philippines with Luzon recording rain fall up to 366 millimeters in an 18 hour period. Elsewhere in the Philippines, rain totals ranged from 328 mm to 300 mm. [1] About over 37,000 people in six providences were affected by Typhoon Dan as the torrential rain flooded 58 small towns and villages. Dans torrental rains washed out sevral roads making rescue and recovery effort difficult. [2] Between 7-10 people were killed in the floods.
