Đắk Nông, Vietnam: storm history

44 storms have passed within 50 km of Đắk Nông from 1888 to 2021. The map shows Vietnam; search for a town in Đắk Nông 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 Đắk Nông

The record holds 44 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Đắk Nông, Vietnam between 1888 and 2021. The busiest month is November, with 21 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 2 strength. 12 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 44storms within 50 km
  • 0major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 3at 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 Đắk Nông?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression1023%
Tropical storm1943%
Category 100%
Category 237%
Category 300%
Category 400%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity1227%

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

Đắk Nông storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 9 in 1960s.1880s11910s11930s11940s11950s41960s91970s51980s71990s52000s22010s62020s2

The 2020s only run to 2021, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1888, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

Show the numbers
PeriodCount
1880s1
1910s1
1930s1
1940s1
1950s4
1960s9
1970s5
1980s7
1990s5
2000s2
2010s6
2020s2

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 21 in Nov.Jan0Feb0Mar2Apr0May1Jun0Jul0Aug0Sep4Oct14Nov21Dec2
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar2
Apr0
May1
Jun0
Jul0
Aug0
Sep4
Oct14
Nov21
Dec2

Strongest storms near Đắk Nông

  • Lola (1993)27 November 1993 to 9 December 1993, Category 2 (95 kt) near here, peak Category 3 (105 kt), 955 hPa
  • Wanda (1951)16 November 1951 to 26 November 1951, peak Category 2 (90 kt), 985 hPa
  • Damrey (2017)31 October 2017 to 5 November 2017, peak Category 2 (90 kt), 970 hPa
  • Gilda (1959)11 December 1959 to 22 December 1959, Tropical storm (60 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (150 kt), 925 hPa
  • Vae (1952)15 October 1952 to 24 October 1952, Tropical storm (45 kt) near here, peak Category 1 (65 kt), 975 hPa

Most recent storms near Đắk Nông

  • Unnamed storm of October 2021 (Western North Pacific)22 October 2021 to 27 October 2021, peak Tropical depression (30 kt), 1,000 hPa
  • Etau (2020)6 November 2020 to 11 November 2020, Tropical depression (30 kt) near here, peak Tropical storm (45 kt), 992 hPa
  • Toraji (2018)16 November 2018 to 21 November 2018, peak Tropical depression (30 kt), 1,000 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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