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, Northern Samar, at 11:00 PST on 14 December, with a central pressure of 935 mb and ten-minute sustained winds of 175 km/h. About 720,000 people had been evacuated in Bicol Province beforehand, and the whole province of more than a million lost power. Just before the fifth landfall, at Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro, at 10:30 PST, the JTWC put peak one-minute sustained winds at 230 km/h, and damage reached 7.04 billion pesos, about US$148.3 million.

Formed (UTC)

2015-12-10

Dissipated (UTC)

2015-12-17

Peak Saffir-Simpson category

4

Peak wind (knots, 1-minute)

125

Basin it formed in

Western North Pacific

Deaths, as sources state them

51

IBTrACS storm page

ncics.org/ibtracs/index.php?name=v04r01-2015344N07145

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: typhoon, philippines, northern samar, mindoro, evacuation, landfall

Coordinates: 11.287911507347202, 131.860442463264

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

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