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 maximum sustained winds, tied with Noul. It reached peak intensity on 27 September and made landfall over Taiwan the next day, bringing very strong winds through the Yaeyama Islands and Taiwan in late September. A second landfall followed over Fujian on 29 September.

Formed (UTC)

2015-09-19

Dissipated (UTC)

2015-09-30

Peak Saffir-Simpson category

4

Peak wind (knots, 1-minute)

130

Basin it formed in

Western North Pacific

Deaths, as sources state them

3 in Taiwan

IBTrACS storm page

ncics.org/ibtracs/index.php?name=v04r01-2015263N14148

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: typhoon, taiwan, yaeyama islands, fujian, landfall

Coordinates: 20.231817299299706, 131.0454551338002

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

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