The 1997 Pacific typhoon season was a record-breaking season featuring eleven tropical cyclones reaching super typhoon intensity, tying the record with
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making the entire population of greater Calcutta 406,700. In 1864, a typhoon struck the city and killed about 60,000 in Kolkata. By the 1850s, Calcutta
11 people. Yule (1997) – a severe tropical storm that formed well east of Japan and tracked northward. Yuri 1991 – a Category 5 super typhoon that passed