Kagawa, Japan: storm history

84 storms have passed within 50 km of Kagawa from 1911 to 2024. The map shows Japan; search for a town in Kagawa 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 Kagawa

The record holds 84 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Kagawa, Japan between 1911 and 2024. The busiest month is September, with 29 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 4 strength. 27 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 84storms within 50 km
  • 3major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 21at 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 Kagawa?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression810%
Tropical storm2833%
Category 11417%
Category 245%
Category 322%
Category 411%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity2732%

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

Kagawa storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 12 in 1950s.1910s91930s71940s91950s121960s111970s61980s31990s82000s82010s82020s3

The 2020s only run to 2024, 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.

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PeriodCount
1910s9
1930s7
1940s9
1950s12
1960s11
1970s6
1980s3
1990s8
2000s8
2010s8
2020s3

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 29 in Sep.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr1May1Jun7Jul9Aug26Sep29Oct10Nov1Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May1
Jun7
Jul9
Aug26
Sep29
Oct10
Nov1
Dec0

Strongest storms near Kagawa

  • Shirley (1965)31 August 1965 to 13 September 1965, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 940 hPa
  • Yancy (1993)27 August 1993 to 7 September 1993, Category 3 (110 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 925 hPa
  • Jebi (2018)26 August 2018 to 7 September 2018, Category 3 (100 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (155 kt), 915 hPa
  • Wilda (1964)16 September 1964 to 27 September 1964, Category 2 (95 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (150 kt), 895 hPa
  • Kate (1951)25 June 1951 to 3 July 1951, Category 2 (90 kt) near here, peak Category 3 (100 kt), 975 hPa

Most recent storms near Kagawa

  • Shanshan (2024)20 August 2024 to 1 September 2024, Tropical storm (35 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (115 kt), 935 hPa
  • Aere (2022)29 June 2022 to 11 July 2022, Tropical depression (25 kt) near here, peak Tropical storm (45 kt), 994 hPa
  • Chanthu (2021)5 September 2021 to 20 September 2021, Tropical storm (35 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (155 kt), 905 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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