Western Pacific typhoons of category 4 and above in the 2014 and 2015 seasons

Map of 16 locations in Western North Pacific

Western Pacific storms from the 2014 and 2015 seasons that reached category 4 or category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale at peak. Each entry is a past event, drawn from contemporary reporting and catalogued track data, and the map draws each one as a line along its whole path rather than a single point. Landfalls, the islands crossed and the casualty figures reported at the time are given as the sources state them.

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  • Typhoon Melor (2015) — Known locally as Nona, the twenty-seventh named storm of the season made the first of five Philippine landfalls at Batag Island, Laoang, No…
  • Typhoon In-fa (2015) — Low vertical wind shear and warm sea surface temperatures took the system from a tropical depression on 17 November to a typhoon on 18 Nove…
  • Typhoon Koppu (2015) — The storm struck the Philippine island of Luzon in mid-October. It made landfall over Casiguran, Aurora, at around 01:00 PHT on 18 October.…
  • Typhoon Mujigae (2015) — Known in the Philippines as Kabayan, the system first passed over the Philippines as a developing tropical cyclone from 1 to 3 October, whe…
  • Typhoon Dujuan (2015) — Known in the Philippines as Jenny, the storm was the second most intense tropical cyclone of the Northwest Pacific in 2015 by ten-minute ma…
  • Typhoon Goni (2015) — The system developed on 13 August and passed through the Mariana Islands two days later. It grew into an intense typhoon over the Philippin…
  • Typhoon Soudelor (2015) — The storm made landfall on Saipan, causing extensive damage, then struck Hualien in Taiwan late on 7 August and emerged over the Taiwan Str…
  • Typhoon Nangka (2015) — The storm moved through the Northern Mariana Islands, passing directly over the uninhabited island of Alamagan, then curved north and weake…
  • Typhoon Chan-hom (2015) — The ninth named storm of the 2015 Pacific typhoon season developed on 29 June from a westerly wind burst that also spawned Tropical Cyclone…
  • Typhoon Noul (2015) — The system formed as a tropical depression over the eastern Caroline Islands on 2 May. PAGASA recorded landfall at Pananapan Point in Santa…
  • Typhoon Maysak (2015) — Known in the Philippines as Chedeng, the storm affected Yap and Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia before approaching the northern…
  • Typhoon Hagupit (2014) — The JMA upgraded the system to a severe tropical storm and the JTWC to a typhoon at noon on 2 December. The Philippine government said the…
  • Typhoon Nuri (2014) — Very favourable conditions, in particular synoptic scale outflow, drove rapid deepening to a peak on 2 November, with a round eye set in a…
  • Typhoon Halong (2014) — Known in the Philippines as Jose, the system underwent explosive intensification on 2 August, going from category 1 to category 3 in under…
  • Typhoon Rammasun (2014) — The storm entered the Philippine area of responsibility on 13 July and was given the local name Glenda. At around 17:00 Philippine Standard…
  • Typhoon Neoguri (2014) — The eighth named storm and second typhoon of that year's season became a tropical storm on 3 July and a typhoon the following day. It began…

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