aug 1, 1966 - Typhoon “UNDANG” (Agnes)
November 3-6, 1984
Description:
10-minute sustained (JMA)
Highest winds 195 km/h (120 mph)
Lowest pressure 925 hPa (mbar); 27.32 inHg
Category 4-equivalent typhoon
1-minute sustained (SSHWS/JTWC)
Highest winds 220 km/h (140 mph)
Overall effects
Fatalities 1,029 total
Missing 273
Damage $90.7 million (1984 USD)
Description: It struck Carles and towns in Northern Iloilo at about noontime and plummeled its howling winds and powerful waves that battered the Northern coast of Capiz, wiping out coastal barangays, twisting metal trusses and galvanized iron roofs flattening houses in other coastal municipalities up to the capital, Roxas City. The enormous Panay (pronounced as “Pan - ay”) River overflowed, transforming half of Capiz into a sea of raging waters filled with debris from trees, houses, fishponds and corpses with dead animals. Survivors who were swept by the floods found themselves clinging to floating debris and bloated corpses at sea. Ships and other seacrafts docked at Roxas City’s Culasi Port were destroyed and sunk while the port itself sustained insurmountable damage.
Devastation continued as rains filled the rivers, drowning people and communities of the rest of Capiz, Aklan, Central Iloilo Province and Northern Antique. By early evening of that day it left Panay Island and devastated the Calamian Group of Islands in Palawan before exiting by dawn of November 6 at the South China Sea.
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