T7 Super Typhoon Ragasa (Nando)

Typhoon Ragasa (Nando) slams the Northern Philippine Islands, now heading for Hong Kong.

Last updated at 13:00 Tuesday, Sept 23rd, PHT

Overview

Tropical storm Ragasa, known as Nando in the Phillipines, formed in the early morning hours of Friday, Sept 19th, roughly 750 km east-northeast of the central Phillipines. The system has steadily intesnified since then. By 9:00 Saturday, Ragasa had intesnified into a typhoon with sustained winds of 120km/h, and just 28 hours later, early Sunday afternoon, Typhoon Ragasa intensified into a raging T6 typhoon, with sustained winds of 222km/h, and gusts of 269km/h. But it didn’t stop there, as Sunday night Ragasa peaked as a T7 super typhoon, with sustained winds of 269km/h, with gusts of 324km/h,

Ragasa slammed the northern Philippine Islands with wind gusts as high as 295km/h, leaving at least one dead, and several more injured. The storm caused widespread destruction and flooding over the exposed and low-lying beaches.