Tottori, Japan: storm history

74 storms have passed within 50 km of Tottori from 1911 to 2025. The map shows Japan; search for a town in Tottori 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 Tottori

The record holds 74 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Tottori, Japan between 1911 and 2025. The busiest month is August, with 27 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 3 strength. 25 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 74storms within 50 km
  • 2major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 15at 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 Tottori?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression811%
Tropical storm2635%
Category 1811%
Category 257%
Category 323%
Category 400%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity2534%

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

Tottori storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 13 in 1940s.1910s51930s41940s131950s71960s121970s61980s21990s122000s32010s62020s4

The 2020s only run to 2025, 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
1910s5
1930s4
1940s13
1950s7
1960s12
1970s6
1980s2
1990s12
2000s3
2010s6
2020s4

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 27 in Aug.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr0May1Jun7Jul8Aug27Sep25Oct6Nov0Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May1
Jun7
Jul8
Aug27
Sep25
Oct6
Nov0
Dec0

Strongest storms near Tottori

  • Shirley (1965)31 August 1965 to 13 September 1965, Category 3 (110 kt) near here, 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
  • Zola (1990)15 August 1990 to 23 August 1990, Category 2 (90 kt) near here, peak Category 3 (100 kt), 960 hPa
  • Ryan (1995)14 September 1995 to 25 September 1995, Category 2 (90 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 940 hPa
  • Wilda (1964)16 September 1964 to 27 September 1964, Category 2 (85 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (150 kt), 895 hPa

Most recent storms near Tottori

  • Unnamed storm of July 2025 (Western North Pacific)11 July 2025 to 14 July 2025, Unknown intensity near here, peak Tropical depression (29 kt), 992 hPa, provisional
  • Lan (2023)6 August 2023 to 18 August 2023, Tropical storm (55 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (120 kt), 940 hPa
  • Nanmadol (2022)11 September 2022 to 20 September 2022, Tropical storm (50 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (135 kt), 910 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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