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A Super Typhoon is an extremely powerful tropical cyclone in the Northwest Pacific basin, with 1-minute sustained winds greater than 67 metres per second (m/s), over 150 miles per hour (240 km/h).^[1] This term is used by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), and is considered to be an "unofficial" label in the West Pacific basin. The term can also be applied to hurricanes or other tropical cyclones, such as a "super hurricane" or "super cyclone", but is generally used only for typhoons, tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The term is comparable to that of "Major hurricane" (Category 3 to 5 storms) in the North Atlantic and Pacific hurricane basins.

The relative sizes of the United States, Super Typhoon Tip and Cyclone Tracy (the largest and smallest tropical cyclones recorded) showing the unusual size of the super typhoon.

References

^ Bouchard, R. H. (April 1990). "A Climatology of Very Intense Typhoons: Or Where Have All the Super Typhoons Gone?". Archived from the original (PPT) on March 16, 2007. Retrieved December 5, 2006.

[SUPERDUPER-1] Bouchard, R. H. (April 1990). "A Climatology of Very Intense Typhoons: Or Where Have All the Super Typhoons Gone?". Archived from the original (PPT) on March 16, 2007. Retrieved December 5, 2006.

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