Give the five (5) Most Destructive Typhoon in the Philippines:

Super Typhoon LOLENG

(October 15-24, 1998)
Wind velocity: 250 kph
Victim Count: 303 deaths
Estimated Property Damage: Php 6.787 B
Two days earlier, super typhoon ILIANG was already rampaging across some areas that super
typhoon LOLENG passed through when it hit our shores on October 19 - thus leaving the areas
of Southern Tagalog Region (Virac, Catanduanes; Camarines Sur and Camarines Norte coastline;
Polillio Islands; Dinangalan, Aurora; Gabaldon and Palayan City, Nueva Ecija; Urdaneta,
Dagupan City, Alaminos and Bani, Pangasinan) with vast tracks of uprooted dwellings &
flattened agricultural lands.
Typhoon KADIANG
(September 30-October 7, 1993)
Wind velocity: 130 kph
Victim Count: 576 deaths
Estimated Property Damage: Php 8.752 B
1993 saw the Philippines with a record of 32 typhoons but its 22nd visitor - KADIANG - did
quite a beating of Pinatubo areas trying to recuperate from the eruption it experienced two years
backs.
Slow moving & erratic, KADIANG caused countless massive landslides throughout Northern
Luzon regions but did more damage when it back-tracked to Central Luzon, especially the
Zambales areas where gigantic volcanic mudflows ("lahar") buried towns in Pampanga.
Super Typhoon RUPING
(November 10-14, 1990)
Wind velocity: 220 kph
Victim count: 748 deaths
Estimated Property Damage: Php 10.846 B
The country's most costly typhoon devastation swept right through the heart of the Visayas
region late in the afternoon of November 12 - RUPING, perhaps one of the most wellremembered typhoon names.
Despite the adequate warnings and preparations from LGU's, RUPING affected a staggering
number of 1,010,004 families after it waylaid several hundreds of homes in the rural Visayan
areas.
And with the sheer power of its winds - even the whole of Mindanao and Southern Tagalog
regions as well as NCR sustained heavy damages.
Super Typhoon SENING
(October 11-15, 1970)
Wind velocity: 275 kph
Victim Count: 768 deaths
Estimated Property Damage: Php 1.89 B

Clocking winds up to 275 kph, SENING got inked in history books as the strongest typhoon to
have crossed the country.
Targeting Central Luzon in particular, SENING did the most damage in major urban residential,
industrial & commercial centres of the metro as it left an unforgettable trail of twisted billboards,
hazardous street debris & uprooted electric posts and trees.
Take note, scores of lives died from flying debris, so in the event of another storm, its best to
stay indoors.
Why is the Philippines often visited by Typhoon?
The three requirements for the formation of tropical revolving storms (typhoons, tropical
cyclones, hurricanes - all the same thing) are a sea surface temperature in excess of 26C, a pre
existing low pressure system and further than 5 from the equator.
When the monsoon trough is in the northern hemisphere that provides the low pressure system.
The Philippines stretch from 5N to about 20N so they are at the right latitude and the warmest
sea surface temperatures in the world are in that area. This is because the trade winds blow warm
surface water across the Pacific to that area.
Given the position, the season and the very warm seas, the Philippines are in an ideal area for
typhoons to develop - and they do.
It is because the Philippines is geographically located along the Pacific region near the Equator
which is prone to tropical cyclones and storms. If you look at the globe or a map, youll see our
big neighbor which lies next to us the biggest ocean in the world, the Pacific Ocean.