Portal:Tropical cyclones/Anniversaries/September/23

September 23

• 1874 - A typhoon struck Hong Kong, killing 17,000 people.
• 1983 - Typhoon Forrest explosively intensified into a Category 5 super typhoon. Forrest became the fastest intensifying cyclone with a 100 hPa drop in 24 hours.
• 1987 - Hurricane Otis (pictured) reaches peak intensity as a Category 3 major hurricane with winds of 185 km/h (115 mph).
• 1998 - Hurricane Georges passed over the Windward Passage and made landfall in Cuba just east of Guantánamo Bay. Georges killed over 600 people throughout the Caribbean, mostly on the island of Hispaniola.