Sentence examples for a severe typhoon from inspiring English sources

A severe typhoon caused a ferry to capsize in 1971, killing 88 people.

The ball is designed to swing back and forth up to five feet during a severe typhoon.

The storm had weakened overnight but was still a severe typhoon, with sustained winds of up to 100 miles, or 160 kilometers, an hour, the Hong Kong authorities said.

On Sept. 26, 1954, the Toya Maru, a Japanese commercial ferry, sank during a severe typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, killing an estimated 1,150 to 1,170 passengers and crew members.

This study aims to investigate the typhoon-generated wind characteristics over different terrains and the wind effects on a super-tall building located in a metropolis during a severe typhoon as well as verification of the accuracy of wind tunnel testing results, so as to provide useful information for the wind-resistant design of high-rise buildings in tropical cyclone-prone regions.

In the Pacific, exceptionally strong typhoons are rated as severe typhoons or even super typhoons, and Typhoon Usagi, with sustained winds of more than 155 miles per hour, briefly qualified as a super typhoon before being downgraded to a severe typhoon.

Severe Typhoon Vicente was the strongest tropical cyclone (TC) that has attacked Hong Kong (HK) since 1999.

Currently described as a "moderate typhoon" by Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau – the second highest category – it could be raised to the top category of "severe typhoon" if wind speeds near the centre reach more than 184km an hour.

From 2009 the Hong Kong Observatory started to further divide typhoons into three different classifications: typhoon, severe typhoon and super typhoon.

Angela was among the five storms to attain super typhoon status in 1989, and was deemed the most severe typhoon of the year, at the time, in the Philippines.

In July 2012, Hong Kong encountered one of the most severe typhoons in the history, Vicente (1208).