Typhoon Linda

Category 1 typhoon (SSHWS)
Typhoon Linda nearing the Malay Peninsula on November 3.
Formed	October 25, 1997
Dissipated	November 9, 1997
Highest winds	1-minute sustained: 120 km/h (75 mph)
Lowest pressure	976 hPa ( mbar); 28.82 inHg
Fatalities	3,840 direct
Damage	> $470 million (1997 USD)
Areas affected	Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand
Part of the 1997 Pacific typhoon season, 1995-1999 North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons

Typhoon Linda (international designation: 9728, JTWC designation: 30W, PAGASA designation: Openg,) was the thirty-first tropical storm and the nineteenth typhoon of the extremely active 1997 Pacific typhoon season. Although weak and barely a Category 1 strength typhoon on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, the typhoon caused catastrophic damage in Vietnam and moderate damage in Cambodia and Thailand. After making landfall on the Malay Peninsula, Linda transitioned into the northern Indian Ocean, where it restrengthened prior to dissipation due to vertical wind shear.

Linda was the worst natural disaster to occur in Vietnam in 100 years. The typhoon made landfall in the southern tip of the country, causing hundreds of deaths and leaving thousands more offshore missing, most of which were reported dead as a result. The typhoon was the deadliest natural disaster to occur in 1997.

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