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Hurricane Charley (Cuba) - August 2004Hurricane Charley passed over Cuba at Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on 13 August 2004. Four people were killed in the storm, and heavy damage was caused but little flooding as the hurricane passed over the island quickly. 
Typhoon Rananim (China) - August 2004Typhoon Rananim struck China at Category 2 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on 12 August 2004. A severe storm; Rananim caused damage along the Chinese coast and destroyed 64,300 houses, damaging over 100,000 more and leaving 168 dead. 
Hurricane Floyd - September 1999At least 70 deaths are attributed to Hurricane Floyd and its aftermath, which prompted the largest peacetime evacuation in U.S. history. 
Typhoon Olga - August 1999Olga developed as a tropical depression about 550 km northwest of Yap on 29th July 1999. It adopted a north-northwestward course and intensified gradually into a typhoon over the next days while heading towards Okinawa, Japan. 
Cyclone Rona - February 1999Tropical cyclone Rona has produced Eastern Australia's worst flooding in more than a century and at least seven deaths. About 2,000 people were evacuated from low-lying areas, and rail and air corridors were shut down. 
Hurricane Mitch - October 1998Hurricane Mitch formed in the southwest Caribbean Sea from a tropical wave about 360 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica late on 21st October. The system initially moved slowly west-ward and intensified into a tropical storm.
Hurricanes Georges and Jeanne - September 1998Georges formed in the far eastern Atlantic on September 15th and reached hurricane status on the 17th. The hurricane moved on a general west-northwesterly course over the next few days reaching maximum wind speeds of 250 km/h. 
Hurricane Danielle - August 1998During the lifetime of Hurricane Danielle, wind speeds greater than 100 Kts were recorded. Danielle formed over the central tropical Atlantic ocean on the 24th of August becoming a tropical storm later that afternoon. Danielle reached hurricane status on the 25th and moved on a West-Northwest track for the next 5 days. 
Cyclone Yali - March 1998Cyclone Yali spent most of its life in the Fiji area. It moved westwards across the 160 East meridian on the 25th of March to the Australian region for a couple of days before undergoing rapid deepening as an extratropical cyclone and pummelling New Zealand with fast winds, high sea waves and heavy rains. |
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