Typhoon Kai-tak (2000)

Typhoon Kai-tak (Edeng)

Typhoon (JMA scale)
Category 1 typhoon (SSHWS)
Formed	July 3, 2000
Dissipated	July 10, 2000
Highest winds	10-minute sustained: 140 km/h (85 mph) 1-minute sustained: 140 km/h (85 mph)
Lowest pressure	960 hPa (mbar); 28.35 inHg
Fatalities	188 total
Areas affected	Philippines, Taiwan, East China, Korea

Typhoon Kai-tak, also known in the Philippines as Typhoon Edeng, was a typhoon that formed in July 2000 and brought severe impacts to the Philippines and Taiwan.

Meteorological history[]

Map plotting the track and intensity of the storm, according to the Saffir–Simpson scale

On July 2, a low pressure area formed north west of the Philippines and became a tropical depression on July 3 and started to drift northward, becoming a storm on the 5th and a typhoon on the 6th. Kai-tak continued northward, hitting Taiwan on the 9th. Kai-tak changed to an extratropical cyclone in the Yellow Sea on the 11th.^[1][2] This extratropical cyclone landed near the Dandong city of the Liaodong Peninsula and changed course to the east, and disappeared on the 12th.^[1]

Name[]

This typhoon was named after Hong Kong's old international airport, Kai Tak Airport. PAGASA gave the storm the name Edeng.^{[citation needed]}

Impact[]

The combined effects of Kai-tak and Tropical Depression Gloring led to the collapse of the Payatas dumpsite, a large garbage pile, devastating a scavenger community with 300 shanty homes near Manila. At least 116 people died in the avalanche—some of whom were decapitated by machinery—and at least 73 others were injured.^[3] 160 people were killed and 150 were missing on Luzon due to heavy rain and landslides.^[4] In Taiwan, a wind of 80 knots or more when landing caused a power outage of more than 3,000 units, killing one person.^[4] The China Meteorological Administration allegedly suffered an economic loss of $82 million in Zhejiang and elsewhere.^[4]

References[]

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