Typhoon June (1954)

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| name = Typhoon June

| image = Typhoon June 1954 surface analysis.png

| caption = Surface weather analysis of Typhoon June at peak intensity in the open Pacific Ocean on September 7

| formed = {{start date|1954|9|4}}

| extratropical = {{start date|1954|9|15}}

| dissipated = {{end date|1954|9|16}}

}}{{infobox weather event/JMA

| winds =

| pressure = 905

}}{{infobox weather event/JTWC

| winds = 130

| pressure =

| basin = wpac

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| year = 1954

| fatalities = 107 reported

| missing = 39

| damage = 300000000

| damage-prefix = >

| damage-suffix =
(shared with Typhoon Lorna)

| areas = Japan • Korean Peninsula • Primorsky Krai

| refs =

}}{{infobox weather event/Footer

| season = 1954 Pacific typhoon season

}}

Typhoon June was a large, strong and devastating typhoon that severely impacted the west and central areas of mainland Japan, causing scores of deaths and heavy devastation. A large storm, it was the tenth storm to be tracked by the Fleet Weather Center (FWC) during the 1954 Pacific typhoon season. The storm was already a tropical storm when it was first noticed by both the FWC and JMA by September 4. Only six hours later, the storm intensified into a typhoon and underwent rapid intensification into a modern-day Category 4 super typhoon just east of northern Luzon in the Philippines with maximum sustained winds of {{convert|130|knot}} calculated in 1-minute sustained winds along with JMA's estimates of its minimum pressure of {{convert|910|mbar|inHg}} on September 7. However, it started to weaken below super typhoon status, and its intensity began to fluctuate while moving northwestwards and north-northwestwards. As it turned northwards by September 12, June regained its intensity as a Category 4 system before making landfall over Yamaguchi Prefecture's Shimonoseki City. There, it weakened and crossed into the Sea of Japan as a tropical storm. Data from the now-Joint Typhoon Warning Center indicated that as the storm made landfall somewhere Primorsky Krai, it retained its tropical storm status. Upon moving inland, it degenerated into an extratropical low before being last monitored by FWC during September 15. However, the JMA did the same on the next day at 06:00 UTC.

Storm warnings were placed for some areas in Japan and the east coast of the Korean Peninsula as June slowly approached these areas.{{cite news|date=September 14, 1954|title=Nippon Typhoon Blows Itself Out|pages=1|newspaper=Arizona Daily Star|location=Tucson, Arizona|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91739397/nippon-typhoon-blows-itself-out/|access-date=January 3, 2022}}{{free access}} In the former, military bases in Okinawa were sheltered while evacuations of people were initiated over the affected areas, particularly over Miyazaki, Miyakonojo and Nobeoka, where 120,000 estimated people were sheltered into safety. Houses were also shuttered. June's first impacts in the country is at Okinawa, where gale-force winds impacted the island. As the typhoon further approached and made landfall over Japan, public infrastructures including bridges and highways sustained damages. Households were also inundated with floods and some were wrecked. Shipping and communication lines were also affected by the storm. 107 were confirmed to have been killed by the typhoon in the country, while 39 were missing. Over 180,000 were flooded and 39,000 are destroyed completely. Along with Typhoon Lorna that struck Tokyo-Yokohama area, June were responsible for over $300 million (1954 USD) worth of damages. Floods were also experienced across the Korean Peninsula due to the typhoon. The troops of the ROK and US were forced to seek higher ground as their military bases were flooded. Dams were also reported to have been nearing their water levels. The typhoon is also responsible for the highest wind speed being recorded at that time before it was surpassed by 2010's Typhoon Prapiroon. Damages and deaths there, if any are unknown.

Meteorological history

June was first monitored by both the Fleet Weather Center (now Joint Typhoon Warning Center) and the Japan Meteorological Center (JMA), with winds of {{convert|50|knots}} and a pressure of {{convert|1004|mbar|inHg}} by 06:00 UTC of September 4. At this time, the detected system is moving northwest before steering to the west by the same time on the next day. Six hours later, the FWC upgraded the system into a modern-day Category 1 typhoon while situated to the north-northeast of Guam. As it started to dive southwestwards, it continued to strengthen and from 18:00 UTC that day until 06:00 UTC on September 6, June underwent deepening of its central pressure, bottoming from {{convert|996|to|970|mbar|inHg}}. The typhoon then strengthened into a Category 2 system, six hours later and kept this designation until it rapidly intensified to a major Category 4 storm by September 7. However, June slightly weakened by the middle of the day, being degraded into a Category 3 cyclone by September 8. Despite the findings of the FWC, the JMA found the typhoon even stronger than earlier, with {{convert|910|mbar|inHg}} being reported at this time. Continued weakening took place before abruptly restrengthening while due northeast of Manila in the Philippines. By the next day, the typhoon further reintensified into a Category 4 typhoon but the JMA analysed the system as a weakened storm with a pressure of {{convert|925|mbar|inHg}}. On 06:00 UTC, June again weakened below that status while traveling northwestwards to north-northwestwards.{{cite web|title=Typhoon June (10W) Best Track|url=https://www.usno.navy.mil/NOOC/nmfc-ph/RSS/jtwc/best_tracks/1954/1954s-bwp/bwp101954.txt|publisher=Joint Typhoon Warning Center|accessdate=January 2, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925181924/https://www.usno.navy.mil/NOOC/nmfc-ph/RSS/jtwc/best_tracks/1954/1954s-bwp/bwp101954.txt|archive-date=September 25, 2018|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/jma-center/rsmc-hp-pub-eg/Besttracks/bst5159.txt |title=RSMC Best Track Data (Text) |date=1951–1959 |publisher=Japan Meteorological Agency |accessdate=January 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322110127/http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/jma-center/rsmc-hp-pub-eg/Besttracks/bst5159.txt |archive-date=March 22, 2012 |url-status=dead }}

Reconnaissance aircraft examined the system by September 10, and found that June has nearly the same size as Grace in that season, with over 300-mile radius.{{cite news|date=September 10, 1954|title=Okinawa Braces For Blow|page=6|newspaper=Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo-Yokohama Edition|location=Tokyo, Japan|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-11-1954-2896346/|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101114529/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-11-1954-2896346/|url-status=live}}{{free access}} Its rapid intensification were also unexpected, according to weathermen at the Fleet Weather Central.{{cite news|date=September 10, 1954|title=Typhoon June Hits 140 MPH|page=6|newspaper=Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo-Yokohama Edition|location=Tokyo, Japan|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-09-1954-2896360/|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113026/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-09-1954-2896360/|url-status=live}}{{free access}} Starting by 12:00 UTC of September 10, June further degraded into a Category 1 typhoon and this remained until 18:00 UTC of the next day. The typhoon then, for the third and last time intensified again to a Category 4 typhoon by September 12 while still moving northwestwards before turning towards the north, aiming at the main Japanese islands. The storm's size further grew to 600 miles around that day, with meteorologists from Japan comparing the storm to the deadly 1934 Muroto typhoon.{{cite news|author=Cpl. Edgar Tharp III|date=September 12, 1954|title=Japan Braces For Typhoon|pages=1, 15|newspaper=Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo-Yokohama Edition|location=Tokyo, Japan|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-12-1954-2896368/|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113032/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-12-1954-2896368/|url-status=live}}{{free access}}

[https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-12-1954-2896368/ p. 1]
[https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-12-1954-2896380/ p. 15] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113023/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-12-1954-2896380/ |date=2022-01-01 }} It then moved just west of Yakushima Island before making landfall over Shimonoseki City in Yamaguchi Prefecture by the night of September 13. By the next day, it then moved over the Sea of Japan, where, according to FWC it was downgraded into a tropical storm before proceeding northwards and make landfall at 12:00 UTC on the next day somewhere over Primorsky Krai in now-Russia. On September 15, the FWC reported that the system degenerated into a “deep” extratropical low further inland. The agency would stop monitor the storm at 12:00 UTC of September 15; however, the JMA continued to track the typhoon's remnants until the same time of the next day.

Effects

= Japan =

Storm warnings were issued for the Okinawan Islands as early as September 10 and over the island of Kyushu due to June as early as September 11.{{cite news|date=September 11, 1954|title=Lazy June Approaches Okinawa|page=6|newspaper=Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo-Yokohama Edition|location=Tokyo, Japan|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-11-1954-2896346/|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101114529/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-11-1954-2896346/|url-status=live}}{{free access}} Military installations by the American and Japanese troops were also readied for the approaching storm. Their equipments were also sheltered. The storm also threatened the attacks from the Chinese Civil War, which is occurring at that time.{{cite news|date=September 12, 1954|title=Typhoon May Halt Chiang Air Assaults on Mainland|page=34|newspaper=Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo-Yokohama Edition|location=Tokyo, Japan|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-12-1954-2896393/|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113018/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-12-1954-2896393/|url-status=live}}{{free access}} Air Force bases of the Far East troops were also placed on an alert status. The Japanese Red Cross and other soldiers were also alerted of the storm.{{cite news|date=September 13, 1954|title=Typhoon June Hits Kyushu|pages=1, 6|newspaper=Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo-Yokohama Edition|location=Tokyo, Japan|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-13-1954-2897846/|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113031/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-13-1954-2897846/|url-status=live}}{{free access}}

[https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-13-1954-2897846/ p. 1]
[https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-13-1954-2897881/p. 6] Weights were also placed on other small or easily damaged establishments due to the storm. Basic needs such as drinking water, food and medical attentions were also addressed. However, American meteorologists forecasted that the Tokyo-Yokohama region will be spared over the full brunt of the storm. The southern portion of the Korean Peninsula were also forecasted by Japanese weathermen to be affected. Rescue workers across Tokyo were also warned of possible impacts from June in the city, with winds up to {{convert|50|mph|km/h}}. 350 individuals from Hōfu and Chugoku Bay's small island of Etajima were also sheltered. Thousands across Shikoku and Kyushu were also immediately evacuated due to June. Over Camp Bofu at Kokura, 49 children and women were asked to move out of the area, from the order of a high-ranked military officer.{{cite news|date=September 14, 1954|title=Cp. Bofu Evacuates Women, Children in Face of Typhoon|page=6|newspaper=Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo-Yokohama Edition|location=Tokyo, Japan|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-14-1954-2897945/|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113033/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-14-1954-2897945/|url-status=live}}{{free access}} Over 120,000 individuals across Miyazaki, Miyakonojo and Nobeoka were also sheltered to safety.

File:Typhoon June nearing landfall in Kyushu.pngDescribed as the strongest typhoon to hit Japan since the 1934 Muroto typhoon,{{cite news|date=September 13, 1954|title=Typhoon Cuts Across Japan|page=2|newspaper=Alton Evening Telegraph|location=Alton, Illinois|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-13-1954-2899962/|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113021/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-13-1954-2899962/|url-status=live}}{{free access}} Ten-foot rough waves from June caused breaches on a seawall elsewhere on Kyushu, according to the United Press (UP). However weatherman from USA questioned this claim, saying that the typhoon is still far away from Japan. Nevertheless, Okinawa was impacted by {{convert|60|mph}} wind gusts from June's outer bands. First reports from the storm in Kyushu and Shikoku from the Japanese National Police registered one death and missing each and three injuries somewhere the aforementioned regions. 2,781 houses were inundated with floodwaters while 85 were either wrecked or sustained damages. On the next day, the death toll rose to 22 and the missing at 19. Many rescues were also conducted over the villages and areas that are the most impacted by June. The storm's rainfall also disrupted the ongoing strike by the country's national employees over the military bases in Japan's south. The western half of Japan were skirted by the typhoon's fury as it slowly weakened upon moving inland. Many highways, bridges and communication lines were also damaged. However, no damages were reported on military bases of Americans and Japanese.{{cite news|date=September 14, 1954|title=Japan Typhoon Kills 22, Blows Out To Sea, Dampens Security Force Strike Activities|pages=1, 6|newspaper=Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo-Yokohama Edition|location=Tokyo, Japan|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-14-1954-2897895/|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113019/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-14-1954-2897895/|url-status=live}}{{free access}}

[https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-14-1954-2897895/ p. 1]
[https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-14-1954-2897911/ p. 6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113032/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-14-1954-2897911/ |date=2022-01-01 }} Shipping operations were disrupted in the country's northern portions. On September 15, the death count rose to 47, with unofficial toll of 92 from Mainichi, a Japanese newspaper. 35 of them were in Minakima, Kyushu alone due to the swelling of Kuma River. The construction ministry of the country also placed the first estimates of the damages in government establishments and equipments from the typhoon to be at $4 million (1954 USD). Cloudy weather with some downpour were also experienced in some areas of Siberia due to the remnants of June, including Vladivostok.{{cite news|date=September 15, 1954|title=June Moves To Siberia|pages=1, 6|newspaper=Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo-Yokohama Edition|location=Tokyo, Japan|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-15-1954-2898323/|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113013/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-15-1954-2898323/|url-status=live}}{{free access}}
[https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-15-1954-2898323/ p. 1]
[https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-15-1954-2899892/ p. 6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113019/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-15-1954-2899892/ |date=2022-01-01 }} Miyakonojō registered a rainfall amount of {{convert|679.6|mm}} from the system, while Uwajima, Ehime got {{convert|316.7|mm}}. Overall, 107 were confirmed to have been killed due to June, with 37 missing. 39,855 homes across the country were completely leveled while 181,380 of them were flooded. Over {{convert|61,722|ha}} of farmland were destroyed while 688 marine vessels sustained damages. Along with Typhoon Lorna, June caused over $300 million worth of damages.{{Cite web|title=台風12号・1954年（昭和29年） 9月10日～14日～自然災害の記録～NHK東日本大震災アーカイブス|trans-title=Typhoon No. 12, 1954 (Showa 29) September 10-14-Records of natural disasters-NHK Great East Japan Earthquake Archives|url=https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/311shogen/disaster_records/detail.cgi?das_id=D0010060094_00000|url-status=live|access-date=December 20, 2021|website=NHK災害アーカイブス|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113024/https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/311shogen/disaster_records/detail.cgi?das_id=D0010060094_00000}}{{Cite web|title=Digital Typhoon: Typhoon 195412 (JUNE) - Disaster Information|url=http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/cgi-bin/dt/dsummary.pl?id=195412&basin=wnp&lang=en|url-status=live|access-date=December 20, 2021|website=Japan Meteorological Agency|archive-date=October 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018150412/http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/cgi-bin/dt/dsummary.pl?id=195412&basin=wnp&lang=en}}{{cite news|date=September 25, 1954|title=Typhoon Marie Is Threat To Japan|page=6|newspaper=Coshocton Tribune|location=Coshocton, Ohio|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-25-1954-2899986/|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113029/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-25-1954-2899986/|url-status=live}}{{free access}}

= Korean Peninsula =

The Korean Peninsula also didn't escape June's impacts, where areas over the region received torrential rainfall from the storm. Before noon by September 14, the Yomsok-chon River over Pyeongtaek overflowed due to the typhoon's rainfall. This incident forced the troops of Republic of Korea and United States’ air base to move into a higher place. Roadways leading to the area were flooded, as well as bridges. Two water reservoirs somewhere around the peninsula were also reported to be nearly overflowing due to the downpour.{{cite news|date=September 14, 1954|title=ROK Air Base Evacuated As River Rises|page=6|newspaper=Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo-Yokohama Edition|location=Osan, South Korea|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-14-1954-2899919/|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113017/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-14-1954-2899919/|url-status=live}}{{free access}} Around Seoul, soldiers there and civilians were also alerted of the Han River increasing its water level for the second time after it did so in the morning of September 15. Over {{convert|17|feet}} were seen in the reservoir. The now-Seoul Incheon International Airport also prepared its manpower in case of possible evacuations.{{cite news|date=September 15, 1954|title=Seoul Braces For Flood|page=6|newspaper=Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo-Yokohama Edition|location=Seoul, South Korea|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-15-1954-2899934/|author=Cpl. Robert Myers|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113028/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-15-1954-2899934/|url-status=live}}{{free access}} An eastern small area to the Korean Demilitarized Zone's south received a rainfall amount of {{convert|35.5|inch}} from the reports of the engineers from the Eighth United States Army, which would make the typhoon the fourth-wettest tropical cyclone across the modern-day South Korea.{{cite news|date=September 16, 1954|title=Second Flood Crest Races Toward Seoul After Storm|page=17|newspaper=Pacific Stars and Stripes, Korea Edition|location=Seoul, South Korea|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-15-1954-2899934/|author=Cpl. Robert Myers|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113028/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-15-1954-2899934/|url-status=live}}{{free access}} Ulleungdo Island, a small volcanic island registered the highest wind speed to be recorded in the mainland at that time, {{convert|45|m/s}} before it was surpassed in 2010 by Typhoon Prapiroon.{{Cite web|date=January 3, 2015|title=[한반도 영향 태풍] 1954년 12호 태풍 준|trans-title=[Typhoon Affecting the Korean Peninsula] 1954 Typhoon Jun|url=https://typhoon-info.tistory.com/383|access-date=December 20, 2021|website=Tropical Cyclone Information :: 태풍 정보|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113023/https://typhoon-info.tistory.com/383|url-status=live}} On September 16, stranded soldiers at the Camp Taro Leaf somewhere the peninsula were brought food via air, as highways were still not passable.{{cite news|date=September 16, 1954|title=Stranded Korea Camp Flown Emergency Food|page=6|newspaper=Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo-Yokohama Edition|location=Seoul, South Korea|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-16-1954-2899956/|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101113021/https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-16-1954-2899956/|url-status=live}}{{free access}}

References

External links

[http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typhoon/summary/wnp/s/195412.html.en JMA General Information] of Typhoon June (195412) from Digital Typhoon

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