North Gyeongsang, South Korea: storm history

82 storms have passed within 50 km of North Gyeongsang from 1911 to 2023. The map shows South Korea; search for a town in North Gyeongsang to see storms near it.

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Years1842 to 2026
Ocean basin

Choosing a minimum category hides storms with no wind speed in the record. To see which storms have passed near you, search a town or ZIP code, or tap the map.

Key
  • Tropical depression Winds below 34 knots (39 mph)
  • Tropical storm 34 to 63 knots (39 to 73 mph)
  • Category 1 64 to 82 knots (74 to 95 mph)
  • Category 2 83 to 95 knots (96 to 110 mph)
  • Category 3 96 to 112 knots (111 to 129 mph), major
  • Category 4 113 to 136 knots (130 to 156 mph), major
  • Category 5 137 knots (157 mph) or more, major
  • Unknown intensity No wind speed in the record
  • Post-tropical Storm has become post-tropical (dashed line)

How to read the lines. Each line is the track of one storm, drawn through its six-hourly positions and coloured by its intensity at each point (the Saffir-Simpson scale), so a line changes colour as the storm strengthens or weakens. Tap a line for its details, or tap anywhere else to see which storms have passed nearby. Weaker storms appear as you zoom in. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same kind of storm with different names in different oceans.

Storms near North Gyeongsang

The record holds 82 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of North Gyeongsang, South Korea between 1911 and 2023. The busiest month is August, with 36 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 3 strength. 22 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 82storms within 50 km
  • 2major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 16at category 1 strength or more

A storm counts once, however many times it came close. The category is the storm's strongest point within 50 km, which can be weaker than its peak elsewhere.

How strong were the storms near North Gyeongsang?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression1620%
Tropical storm2834%
Category 11012%
Category 245%
Category 322%
Category 400%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity2227%

The agency behind most of the intensity figures here is the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (western Pacific).

North Gyeongsang storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 12 in 2000s.1910s31920s11930s51940s51950s71960s71970s91980s51990s102000s122010s122020s6

The 2020s only run to 2023, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1911, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

Show the numbers
PeriodCount
1910s3
1920s1
1930s5
1940s5
1950s7
1960s7
1970s9
1980s5
1990s10
2000s12
2010s12
2020s6

Earlier decades hold fewer storms partly because they were harder to see. Before weather satellites (about the 1960s) many storms that stayed at sea went unrecorded, so compare decades with care.

Storms by month
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 36 in Aug.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr0May1Jun2Jul18Aug36Sep19Oct5Nov1Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May1
Jun2
Jul18
Aug36
Sep19
Oct5
Nov1
Dec0

Strongest storms near North Gyeongsang

  • Emma (1956)1 September 1956 to 11 September 1956, Category 3 (100 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (135 kt), 930 hPa
  • Sarah (1959)10 September 1959 to 23 September 1959, Category 3 (100 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (165 kt), 905 hPa
  • Faye (1995)12 July 1995 to 25 July 1995, Category 2 (95 kt) near here, peak Category 3 (105 kt), 950 hPa
  • Maemi (2003)4 September 2003 to 16 September 2003, Category 2 (95 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (150 kt), 910 hPa
  • Sanba (2012)10 September 2012 to 18 September 2012, Category 2 (85 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (155 kt), 900 hPa

Most recent storms near North Gyeongsang

  • Khanun (2023)26 July 2023 to 11 August 2023, Tropical storm (45 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (125 kt), 930 hPa
  • Hinnamnor (2022)27 August 2022 to 9 September 2022, Category 1 (80 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 920 hPa
  • Omais (2021)7 August 2021 to 31 August 2021, Tropical depression (25 kt) near here, peak Tropical storm (55 kt), 994 hPa

Many of these storms killed people and destroyed homes. The figures are the official record's, and this page says nothing about their human cost.

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