Mangkhut2018
Super Typhoon
- Peak wind
- 204 km/h
- Lowest pressure
- 905 hPa
204 km/h
905 hPaHong Kong signalHurricane Signal No. 10
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Saola2023
Super Typhoon
- Peak wind
- 194 km/h
- Lowest pressure
- 920 hPa
Hong Kong signalHurricane Signal No. 10
Wipha2025
Severe Tropical Storm
- Peak wind
- 111 km/h
- Lowest pressure
- 975 hPa
Hong Kong signalHurricane Signal No. 10
Track figures: Japan Meteorological Agency best track, ten-minute mean sustained wind.
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Mangkhut 2018
Crossed Luzon at peak intensity and bore down on the Pearl River Estuary, passing about 100 km south of Hong Kong.
- Peak wind
- 204 km/h
- Lowest pressure
- 905 hPa
- Intensity
- Super Typhoon
- Hong Kong signal
- Hurricane Signal No. 10
- Measured in Hong Kong · eight-station mean
- 94.4 km/h
- Measured in Hong Kong · Waglan Island
- 161 km/h
- Track figures: Japan Meteorological Agency best track, ten-minute mean sustained wind.
- Measured figures: Hong Kong Observatory anemometers, ten-minute mean sustained wind — not computed here.
- Intensity: the Observatory's six-level scale, defined on the same ten-minute mean.