<P> The thirtieth named storm of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season , Haiyan originated from an area of low pressure several hundred kilometers east - southeast of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia on November 2 , 2013 . Tracking generally westward , environmental conditions favored tropical cyclogenesis and the system developed into a tropical depression the following day . After becoming a tropical storm and attaining the name Haiyan at 0000 UTC on November 4 , the system began a period of rapid intensification that brought it to typhoon intensity by 1800 UTC on November 5 . By November 6 , the Joint Typhoon Warning Center ( JTWC ) assessed the system as a Category 5 - equivalent super typhoon on the Saffir - Simpson hurricane wind scale ; the storm passed over the island of Kayangel in Palau shortly after attaining this strength . </P>
<P> The thirtieth named storm of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season , Haiyan originated from an area of low pressure several hundred kilometers east - southeast of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia on November 2 , 2013 . Tracking generally westward , environmental conditions favored tropical cyclogenesis and the system developed into a tropical depression the following day . After becoming a tropical storm and attaining the name Haiyan at 0000 UTC on November 4 , the system began a period of rapid intensification that brought it to typhoon intensity by 1800 UTC on November 5 . By November 6 , the Joint Typhoon Warning Center ( JTWC ) assessed the system as a Category 5 - equivalent super typhoon on the Saffir - Simpson hurricane wind scale ; the storm passed over the island of Kayangel in Palau shortly after attaining this strength . </P>
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2013 Pacific typhoon season
2013 Pacific typhoon season