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2.2.18<br />

MELOR (0918)<br />

29 September – 11 October<br />

<strong>TCAR</strong><br />

CHAPTER 2 - TROPICAL CYCLONES 2008<br />

MELOR (0918) formed as a tropical depression west of the Marshall Islands at 06 UTC on 29 September and<br />

moved generally west-northwestwards. It intensified into tropical storm at 00 UTC and a severe tropical storm<br />

at 18 UTC the next day, then rapidly into a typhoon at 00 UTC on 1 October. Melor attained its peak intensity with<br />

maximum sustained wind of 204 km/h and a central pressure of 910 hPa at 06 UTC on 4 October Maintaining<br />

its typhoon intensity and northwesterly track, Melor was gradually recurving to move in the northeast direction.<br />

Melor made landfall over Honshu on 7 October with typhoon intensity, then it moved across the southern part of<br />

Honshu and weakened into a sever tropical storm at 00 UTC on 8 October. It became an extra-tropical cyclone<br />

over the sea east of Hohshu at 12 UTC on 8 October and dissipated on at 06 UTC 11 October. It was reported<br />

that 4 people were killed and more than 100 injured in Japan.<br />

2009<br />

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