Category 5 tropical cyclones of the 2009 to 2012 seasons

Map of 11 locations · Worldwide

Storms that topped the Saffir-Simpson scale in four consecutive cyclone seasons, each drawn as a full track from the first advisory to the last rather than as a single point. They range across the western and eastern North Pacific, the South Pacific and the South Indian Ocean, with landfalls in the Philippines, Japan, Mexico, the Solomon Islands, Palau and Mindanao. These are closed historical records, compiled from archived advisories and agency reports.

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  • Typhoon Bopha (2012) — The typhoon made its first landfall in Palau, where it destroyed houses, disrupted communications and caused power outages, flooding and up…
  • Typhoon Sanba (2012) — The system formed as a tropical depression east of the Philippines, the 17th of the season in the western North Pacific, with accounts dati…
  • Typhoon Nanmadol (2011) — Peak strength came on August 26, with 10-minute sustained winds of 100 knots and one-minute winds of 140 knots. The storm drifted northwest…
  • Typhoon Muifa (2011) — According to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center the system went from tropical storm to super typhoon in less than 24 hours, reaching one-minu…
  • Typhoon Songda (2011) — The storm formed on May 17 from a non-tropical low embedded in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, and became the first super typhoon of th…
  • Typhoon Megi (2010) — The typhoon made its first landfall over Luzon early on October 18 at peak intensity, killing 31 people and causing $255.1 million in damag…
  • Hurricane Celia (2010) — The storm reached Category 5 strength on 24 June, the first in the East Pacific that season. Its 140 knot intensity matched that of Hurrica…
  • Cyclone Ului (2010) — The Fiji Meteorological Service first identified the system late on 9 March 2010, roughly 130 kilometres north of Hiw Island, Vanuatu, and…
  • Cyclone Edzani (2010) — The system developed in the South-West Indian Ocean at the turn of the year and bottomed out at a barometric pressure of 910 mbar, with 10-…
  • Hurricane Rick (2009) — Developing off the southern coast of Mexico in mid-October, the system found favourable conditions and became a hurricane within 24 hours o…
  • Typhoon Melor (2009) — The typhoon weakened gradually on its approach to Japan and made landfall there on October 7. Japan recorded 3 fatalities and $1.5 billion…

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