Typhoon Vipa (2020)

Typhoon Vipa, also known as Super Typhoon Vipa, was a tropical cyclone that hit Hong Kong and a part of the Philippines, and was the 4th named storm in the Pacific typhoon season. Vipa was also the first major typhoon to hit Hong Kong and the first to hit it since Nida in 2016, and broke the record for most strongest tropical cyclone with 1-minute sustained winds of 220 mph.

Track
Vipa formed as a depression 600 miles East of the Philippines at 17.54 degrees North at 2 mph. 12 hours after formation, it becomes a typhoon, a category 1 on the SSHWS. With the sudden strengthening, Vipa started heading towards the Philippines largest island "Luzon", where it made landfall at 2:00AM PTZ. Soon after the landfall, Vipa started to strengthen rapidly where it became a Category 3 typhoon heading towards Macau and Hong Kong. 2 hours later, it became a Category 5 super typhoon. Once Vipa had been closer to Hong Kong, it had came in contact with a severe storm system Northwest of it, causing the typhoon to swing 40 degrees straight towards Hong Kong. Making landfall at around 10:00PM, where it headed into mainland China, dissipating...