Typhoon Haishen

Landfall | Summary
Posting Date: September 7, 2020, 3:30:00 PM

Typhoon Haishen made landfall around 9 a.m. local time (00:00 UTC) on September 7, in Ulsan, South Korea, with 1-minute sustained wind speeds of 143 km/h (89 mph), the equivalent of a strong Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. Ulsan is located in the southeastern part of South Korea, just north of Busan, the country’s second-largest city and the world’s fifth-largest port.

Before making landfall, Haishen passed close by the southernmost and third-largest island of Japan, Kyushu, in the overnight hours, causing major hurricane–force winds of 195 km/h (121 mph), the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane.

ALERT™ subscribers can download similar stochastic event (SSE) IDs for this event from the Downloads tab. Compatible with Touchstone^®, Touchstone Re™, and CATRADER^®, the SSEs were selected from the 10K stochastic catalog of AIR’s Typhoon Model for the Northwest Pacific Basin based on event parameters (not industry losses) and should be used only for exposures in Japan and South Korea. The information provided herein is strictly confidential and is solely for the use of AIR clients; disclosure to others is prohibited unless noted in your AIR software license. 

Landfall | Downloads
Posting Date: September 7, 2020, 3:30:00 PM

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