Powerful Typhoon Phanfone, August 15, 2002

  • Released Wednesday, August 21, 2002
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Powerful Typhoon Phanfone, packing winds of up to 78 miles per hour, was on course to hit Japan's outlying Pacific islands. The storm disrupted air and ferry services and the associated weather system brought heavy rains to central Japan.

This animation zooms down to Typhoon Phanfone just south of Japan. The structure of the storm is revealed where yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain or more, green shows 1.0 inches of rain and red shows 2.0 inches or more.

Peel away the clouds to reveal the rain structure of the storm. Yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain or more, green shows 1.0 inches of rain and red shows 2.0 inches or more.

Peel away the clouds to reveal the rain structure of the storm. Yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain or more, green shows 1.0 inches of rain and red shows 2.0 inches or more.

TMI rain structure

TMI rain structure

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Wednesday, August 21, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.

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