The name Halong has been used to name four
tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its locat ...
s in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The name was contributed by
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
after
Halong Bay Halong may refer to:
* Ha Long
Ha may refer to:
Agencies and organizations
* Health authority, a former type of administrative organisation of the NHS in England and Wales
* Hells Angels Motorcycle Club
* Highways Agency (renamed ''Highways En ...
, a UNESCO World Heritage site and popular tourist attraction in northern Vietnam.
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Typhoon Halong (2002)
Typhoon Halong (transliterated from Vietnamese Hạ Long), known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Inday, passed just south of Guam one week after Typhoon Chataan struck the island and left heavy damage. The seventh tropical cyclone naming, nam ...
(T0207, 10W, Inday) – a Category 4 super typhoon which struck Japan
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Severe Tropical Storm Halong (2008) (T0804, 05W, Cosme) – struck the Philippines
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Typhoon Halong (2014)
Typhoon Halong (transliterated from Vietnamese Hạ Long), known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Jose, was an intense Typhoon in the Western Pacific basin in early August 2014. It was the twelfth named storm and the fifth typhoon of the 2014 ...
(T1411, 11W, Jose) – a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon
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Typhoon Halong (2019)
The 2019 Pacific typhoon season was a devastating season that became the costliest on record, just ahead of the previous year and 2023, mainly due to the catastrophic damage wrought by typhoons Lekima, Faxai, and Hagibis. The season was the ...
(T1923, 24W) – another Category 5-equivalent super typhoon, strongest cyclone worldwide in 2019
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