Satellite view of Utor – around the time it reached peak “super typhoon” intensity (NOAA)
Earth’s strongest storm of 2013 so far, typhoon Utor, did a number on the northern Philippines. Now it’s destined for southeastern China.
Utor, referred to as Labuyo in the Philippines, packed maximum sustained winds of 140 mph as it battered the northern island of Luzon.
The storm killed at least two people and destroyed 80 percent of the infrastructure in town of Casiguran near where it came inland according to reports.
In the hours prior to landfall, Utor’s intensity peaked at 150 mph, the equivalent of high-end category 4 hurricane and earning it “super typhoon” status (winds must be 150 mph for “super typhoon” classification), briefly. That intensity bested any storm globally in 2013 writes Jeff Masters at wunderground.
Residents surveying the destruction from the rain in Cebu city as tropical storm Utor heads to central Philippines. — AFP picMANILA, August 12 — The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year flattened houses, caused flash floods and triggered landslides in remote towns today, killing at least one person.
With gusts of 200 kilometres (124 miles) an hour, authorities said they feared many more people may have died as Typhoon Utor swept across coastal and mountainous regions of the northern Philippines.
“It looks like the death and damage toll is going to go up... with wind like this, you can expect a lot of damage,” Francis Rodriguez, a senior officer with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, told AFP.
Rodriguez said authorities would likely not receive reports from isolated villages that were in Utor’s direct path until tomorrow.
Hundreds of people die each year in the Philippines from the roughly 20 typhoons that strike the country.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/deadly-typhoon-utor-strikes-philippines#sthash.1ybVQ6x9.dpuf
Residents surveying the destruction from the rain in Cebu city as tropical storm Utor heads to central Philippines. — AFP picMANILA, August 12 — The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year flattened houses, caused flash floods and triggered landslides in remote towns today, killing at least one person.
With gusts of 200 kilometres (124 miles) an hour, authorities said they feared many more people may have died as Typhoon Utor swept across coastal and mountainous regions of the northern Philippines.
“It looks like the death and damage toll is going to go up... with wind like this, you can expect a lot of damage,” Francis Rodriguez, a senior officer with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, told AFP.
Rodriguez said authorities would likely not receive reports from isolated villages that were in Utor’s direct path until tomorrow.
Hundreds of people die each year in the Philippines from the roughly 20 typhoons that strike the country.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/deadly-typhoon-utor-strikes-philippines#sthash.1ybVQ6x9.dpuf
Residents surveying the destruction from the rain in Cebu city as tropical storm Utor heads to central Philippines. — AFP picMANILA, August 12 — The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year flattened houses, caused flash floods and triggered landslides in remote towns today, killing at least one person.
With gusts of 200 kilometres (124 miles) an hour, authorities said they feared many more people may have died as Typhoon Utor swept across coastal and mountainous regions of the northern Philippines.
“It looks like the death and damage toll is going to go up... with wind like this, you can expect a lot of damage,” Francis Rodriguez, a senior officer with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, told AFP.
Rodriguez said authorities would likely not receive reports from isolated villages that were in Utor’s direct path until tomorrow.
Hundreds of people die each year in the Philippines from the roughly 20 typhoons that strike the country.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/deadly-typhoon-utor-strikes-philippines#sthash.1ybVQ6x9.dpuf
Residents surveying the destruction from the rain in Cebu city as tropical storm Utor heads to central Philippines. — AFP picMANILA, August 12 — The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year flattened houses, caused flash floods and triggered landslides in remote towns today, killing at least one person.
With gusts of 200 kilometres (124 miles) an hour, authorities said they feared many more people may have died as Typhoon Utor swept across coastal and mountainous regions of the northern Philippines.
“It looks like the death and damage toll is going to go up... with wind like this, you can expect a lot of damage,” Francis Rodriguez, a senior officer with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, told AFP.
Rodriguez said authorities would likely not receive reports from isolated villages that were in Utor’s direct path until tomorrow.
Hundreds of people die each year in the Philippines from the roughly 20 typhoons that strike the country.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/deadly-typhoon-utor-strikes-philippines#sthash.1ybVQ6x9.dpuf
Residents surveying the destruction from the rain in Cebu city as tropical storm Utor heads to central Philippines. — AFP picMANILA, August 12 — The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year flattened houses, caused flash floods and triggered landslides in remote towns today, killing at least one person.
With gusts of 200 kilometres (124 miles) an hour, authorities said they feared many more people may have died as Typhoon Utor swept across coastal and mountainous regions of the northern Philippines.
“It looks like the death and damage toll is going to go up... with wind like this, you can expect a lot of damage,” Francis Rodriguez, a senior officer with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, told AFP.
Rodriguez said authorities would likely not receive reports from isolated villages that were in Utor’s direct path until tomorrow.
Hundreds of people die each year in the Philippines from the roughly 20 typhoons that strike the country.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/deadly-typhoon-utor-strikes-philippines#sthash.1ybVQ6x9.dpuf
Residents surveying the destruction from the rain in Cebu city as tropical storm Utor heads to central Philippines. — AFP picMANILA, August 12 — The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year flattened houses, caused flash floods and triggered landslides in remote towns today, killing at least one person.
With gusts of 200 kilometres (124 miles) an hour, authorities said they feared many more people may have died as Typhoon Utor swept across coastal and mountainous regions of the northern Philippines.
“It looks like the death and damage toll is going to go up... with wind like this, you can expect a lot of damage,” Francis Rodriguez, a senior officer with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, told AFP.
Rodriguez said authorities would likely not receive reports from isolated villages that were in Utor’s direct path until tomorrow.
Hundreds of people die each year in the Philippines from the roughly 20 typhoons that strike the country.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/deadly-typhoon-utor-strikes-philippines#sthash.1ybVQ6x9.dpuf
Residents surveying the destruction from the rain in Cebu city as tropical storm Utor heads to central Philippines. — AFP picMANILA, August 12 — The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year flattened houses, caused flash floods and triggered landslides in remote towns today, killing at least one person.
With gusts of 200 kilometres (124 miles) an hour, authorities said they feared many more people may have died as Typhoon Utor swept across coastal and mountainous regions of the northern Philippines.
“It looks like the death and damage toll is going to go up... with wind like this, you can expect a lot of damage,” Francis Rodriguez, a senior officer with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, told AFP.
Rodriguez said authorities would likely not receive reports from isolated villages that were in Utor’s direct path until tomorrow.
Hundreds of people die each year in the Philippines from the roughly 20 typhoons that strike the country.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/deadly-typhoon-utor-strikes-philippines#sthash.1ybVQ6x9.dpuf
