Typhoon Wilda (1964)

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According to data from the Japan Meteorological Agency, Wilda began as a tropical storm east-southeast of Guam on September 16, marked by a large mass of clouds and associated rainbands. [2] [3] : 141  The system tracked northwest over the Northern Mariana Islands and into the Philippine Sea two days later. [2] The Joint Typhoon Warning Center recognized the storm as a tropical cyclone on September 19 when it was located roughly 370 km (230 mi) northwest of Saipan and assessed Wilda to have strengthened into a typhoon later that day. [4] : 77  An eye emerged on Nimbus satellite imagery on September 20, [3] : 159  and on September 21, Wilda reached its peak intensity over the Philippine Sea with one-minute maximum sustained winds of 280 km/h (170 mph) as estimated by the JTWC and a minimum central pressure of 895 hPa (mbar; 26.43 inHg). [2] Based on data from the JMA, this was tied for lowest central pressure of any typhoon in 1964, along with Typhoon Sally. [1] Wilda slightly weakened following peak strength before curving northward and making landfall on Kagoshima on September 24; one-minute sustained winds three hours prior to landfall were estimated to be 185 km/h (115 mph). [2] The storm passed over Shikoku and southern Honshu before emerging into the Sea of Japan and curving northeast. Wilda made a final landfall on the western coast of northern Honshu on September 25 as a tropical storm, thereafter, departing Japan and quickly moving towards the central Aleutian Islands as a powerful extratropical cyclone. [2] [4] : 77  The storm was last identified on September 27. [2]

Preparations and impact

Wilda was one of the strongest typhoons to ever strike Japan as measured by atmospheric pressure, reaching Cape Sata in Kagoshima with a central pressure of 940 hPa (mbar; 27.76 inHg). [5] The typhoon caused 47 fatalities and 530 injuries in Japan. Over 70,000 homes were destroyed and nearly 45,000 were inundated by the typhoon across the country, [6] leaving thousands of people homeless. [7] The southern and eastern coasts of Kyushu, the southern coast of Shikoku, and Hyōgo Prefecture experienced the highest proportion of destroyed homes per capita. [8] At least 64 ships were sunk with another 192 damaged or lost. [9] Damage was widespread in the northern Ryukyu Islands. [4] : 77  Banana, sugar cane, and vegetable fields in Amami Ōshima were badly damaged, along with roofs and windows. Naze lost power during the storm. Wilda brought 6-meter (20-foot) waves to southern Kyushu. [10] One British freighter ran aground off Kagoshima and broke into two; all 41 crew were rescued. [11] The widespread flooding in the region overtopped dikes and disrupted air and rail traffic. [12] At Uwajima, Ehime, a peak wind gust of 259 km/h (161 mph) was observed; [8] this was the strongest wind recorded in connection with the Wilda in Japan. [13] An 8,547-ton Indonesian freighter with 53 crew ran aground and keeled over at the Port of Kobe. [14] [15] Gale-force winds from Wilda reached the Tokyo area, damaging roofs at the Tokyo Olympic Village and uprooting trees two weeks before the start of the 1964 Summer Olympics. [16] [17] [18] A ship just south of Tokyo Bay reported winds of 76 km/h (47 mph). [4] : 77 

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