This is a list of wettest tropical cyclones by country, using all known available sources. Data is most complete for Australia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Japan,
Hong Kong
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, Mexico, Taiwan,
Micronesia
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's
Yap and
Chuuk, and the United States, with fragmentary data available for other countries. The
French region
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of
Réunion
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holds several world records for tropical cyclone and worldwide rainfall, due to the rough topography and its location in the Indian Ocean.
Below are the records for each country above.
Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Christmas Island
Christmas Island
Christmas Island, officially the Territory of Christmas Island, is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the same name. It is located in the Indian Ocean, around south of Java and Sumatra and around north-west of the ...
is an Australian territory located in the Indian Ocean located at the summit of a submarine mountain, which rises steeply to a central plateau that is dominated by stands of rainforest.
After rainfall and wind observations started on the island during 1972, only 13 tropical cyclones passed within of the territory between 1972 and 2005.
Cocos Islands
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are an Australian territory of 27 coral islands that are formed into two large coral atolls and cover an area of around of the Indian Ocean to the northwest of Perth, Australia.
Rainfall observations started on the islands during 1907, while temperature, wind and other records started in 1952.
Between 1952 and 2005 27 tropical cyclones caused storm force wind gusts of over on the islands, while only four caused hurricane-force gusts of over .
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Bangladesh has been the scene of the greatest tropical cyclone casualties in recent times. The country is quite flat and generally lies near sea level.
Belize
This country has terrain mainly across its southern sections, with elevations up to about . The highest reported rainfall in what was formerly British Honduras occurred during
Hurricane Keith
Hurricane Keith was an Atlantic hurricane in October 2000 that caused extensive damage in Central America, especially in Mexico and Belize. It was the fifteenth tropical cyclone, eleventh named storm, and seventh hurricane of the 2000 Atlantic ...
in 2000 when of rain fell in a 24‑hour period at Phillip Goodson International Airport in
Belize City
Belize City is the largest city in Belize and was once the capital of the former British Honduras. According to the 2010 census, Belize City has a population of 57,169 people in 16,162 households. It is at the mouth of the Haulover Creek, wh ...
.
Equally heavy rains could have fallen during
Hurricane Hattie of 1961 and
Hurricane Fifi
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of 1974.
Cambodia
Canada
Tropical cyclones are usually in transition to
extratropical cyclone
Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones, are low-pressure areas which, along with the anticyclones of high-pressure areas, drive the weather over much of the Earth. Extratropical cyclones are capable ...
s by the time they reach
Atlantic Canada
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, though occasionally they retain their tropical status. No tropical cyclone has ever hit Canada's Pacific coast.
China
China is a mountainous country, which leads to rapid dissipation of cyclones that move inland as well as significant amounts of rain from those dissipating cyclones.
Typhoon Nina (1975)
Typhoon Nina, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Bebeng, was a deadly tropical cyclone that triggered the Banqiao Dam collapse in China's Henan Province, China in August 1975. It formed on July 30, and gradually intensified as it moved g ...
caused the collapse of two huge reservoirs and ten smaller dams when fell in
Henan
Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is a ...
during a 24‑hour period, which is the record for Mainland China. Typhoon Sam of the
1999 Pacific typhoon season
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became the wettest known tropical cyclone to impact Hong Kong since records began in 1884, breaking a 73‑year‑old record. Precipitation associated with tropical cyclones and their remains can bring snow to
Tibet
Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...
. An early October 2004 tropical depression brought daily precipitation of of liquid equivalent precipitation to Che-Ku county in the form of heavy snow, which was a new October daily precipitation record for both rain and snow. This led to a loss of 340,000 kg of food, 230,000 kg of forage grass, and 263 livestock in the snowstorm.
Mainland
Hong Kong
Costa Rica
Cuba
Hurricane Flora
Hurricane Flora is among the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes in recorded history, with a death total of at least 7,193. The seventh tropical storm and sixth hurricane of the 1963 Atlantic hurricane season, Flora developed from a disturbance in th ...
of October 1963 drifted across Cuba for four days, leading to extreme rainfall across the mountainous island country. During the heaviest 24‑hour period of rainfall, of rain fell at
Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. It lies in the southeastern area of the island, some southeast of the Cuban capital of Havana.
The municipality extends over , and contains ...
. Total amounts of over 4 days and over 5 days produced staggering loss of life in Cuba, where over 2000 perished.
Dominica
The islands of the eastern
Caribbean
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are constantly threatened by
tropical storm
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s and
hurricane
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s, mainly between August and October. Dominica is a rugged island, with spots of elevation as high as nearly . As
Hurricane Jeanne
Hurricane Jeanne was a Category 3 hurricane that struck the Caribbean and the Eastern United States in September 2004. It was the deadliest hurricane in the Atlantic basin since Mitch in 1998. It was the tenth named storm, the seventh hurric ...
moved through the region, of rain fell during the 24‑hour period ending on the morning of September 15, 2004.
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic, has some of the highest terrain surrounding the
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexic ...
, with Pico Duarte peaking at above sea level. Most of the tropical cyclone rainfall totals on the list below are 24‑hour maxima, which likely underrepresent the storm total.
El Salvador
Fiji
Orography
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from the volcanic islands of Fiji has led to significant rainfall during tropical cyclone passages, which occur roughly once a year.
France
French Polynesia
Guadeloupe
Hurricane Marilyn moved directly across the island in mid-September 1995,
bringing the highest known rainfall totals to the island from a tropical cyclone.
Martinique
Martinique is a mountainous island at the fringe of the eastern
Caribbean Sea
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.
New Caledonia
Réunion Island
The mountainous island of Réunion has experienced several of the highest rainfall totals on record from tropical cyclones and holds the rainfall world records for 12, 24, 48, 72 hours, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten days as a result.
The 12 and 24 hourly rainfall records were set at Foc-Foc by Cyclone Denise in 1966, while an Unnamed Tropical Cyclone between April 8–10, 1958 set the record for 48 hours at Aurere.
Tropical Cyclone Gamede between February 24–28, 2007 came close to beating the records for 12, 24 and 48 hours before setting the records for three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine days that were held by
Tropical Cyclone Hyacinthe 1980.
Hyacinthe 1980 currently holds the world records for ten and fifteen days with rainfall totals of and respectively recorded at Commerson Crater.
Saint Martin
Wallis and Futuna
Guatemala
Tropical Storm Agatha in May 2010 became the second-wettest tropical cyclone in the nation's history when it slowly developed while remaining nearly stationary to the southwest of Guatemala, before turning northeast and dissipating across inland Central America.
Haiti
Haiti that makes up three-eighths of Hispaniola, is a mountainous country that has experienced some of the most powerful hurricanes on record, including
Hurricane David. Its three mountain ranges have peaks as high as 8793 feet/2680 meters above sea level.
Honduras
Swan Island
India
India can be struck by cyclones that form in the Bay of Bengal or the Arabian Sea.
These are the most destructive hurricane.
Indonesia
The precursor tropical disturbance of
Tropical Cyclone Inigo in April 2003 dropped heavy rainfall in eastern Indonesia. The rainfall caused
flash flood
A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, or tropical storm, or by meltwater from ice or snow flowing ...
ing and mudslides, primarily in Flores but also on
West Timor
West Timor ( id, Timor Barat) is an area covering the western part of the island of Timor, except for the district of Oecussi-Ambeno (an East Timorese exclave). Administratively, West Timor is part of East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. The ...
and
Sumba
Sumba ( id, Pulau Sumba) is an island in eastern Indonesia. It is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands and is in the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Sumba has an area of , and the population was 779,049 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as a ...
.
In some locations, the depth of the floodwaters reached . The Oessao River in
West Timor
West Timor ( id, Timor Barat) is an area covering the western part of the island of Timor, except for the district of Oecussi-Ambeno (an East Timorese exclave). Administratively, West Timor is part of East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. The ...
exceeded its banks, which flooded seven villages. In
Kupang
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in West Timor, the system destroyed hundreds of homes and large fields of corn, bean, and rice crop. Heavy damage was reported near
Ende, where flooding and mudslides destroyed 20 houses and destroyed the roads connecting to East Flores. The city airport was flooded with one meter (3 ft) of water, preventing aerial transportation and which left the city temporarily isolated. In
East Flores Regency
East Flores Regency ( id, Kabupaten Flores Timur) is a regency in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Established in 1958, the regency has its seat (capital) in Larantuka on Flores Island. It covers a land area of 1,812.85 km2, and it ...
in eastern Flores Island, the system left 75 destroyed houses, along with 77 severely damaged and a further 56 receiving light damage.
Iran
Jamaica
This mountainous island country of Jamaica can get lashed with rainfall by slow-moving tropical cyclones in the western Caribbean Sea. Its interior, the Blue Mountains, reach a height of above sea level.
Japan
The mountainous island archipelago is constantly struck by typhoons recurving out of the tropics, which are normally in extratropical transition as they pass through Japan. Typhoon Namtheun of the
2004 Pacific typhoon season
The 2004 Pacific typhoon season was an extremely active season that featured the second-highest ACE ever recorded in a single season, second only to 1997, which featured 29 named storms, nineteen typhoons, and six super typhoons. It was an event ...
holds the national 24-hour precipitation record with observed in Kisawa village,
surpassing the previous record of set during
Typhoon Fran
Typhoon Fran, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Reming, produced tremendous rainfall in Japan including, at the time, a national 24-hour record accumulation of . Forming as a tropical depression on September 3 to the southeast of Guam, Fr ...
in 1976.
Okinawa
Ryukyu Islands
Typhoon Rusa caused of rain to fall at Naze on August 29–30, 2002.
Typhoon Aere dropped of rain in the 65‑hour period ending at 1400 UTC on August 25, 2004, at Ishigakihima.
Typhoon Agnes in August 1957 dropped of rainfall on
Marcus Island
, also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, located some southeast of Tokyo and east of the closest Japanese island, South Iwo Jima of the Ogasawara Islands, and nearly on a straight li ...
.
In 1972,
Typhoon Rita dumped on
Okinoerabu Shima.
Johnston Atoll
Tropical cyclones occasionally threaten this central Pacific island. Hurricane Celeste of 1972 brought to the isle around August 19.
Korea
The
Korean Peninsula
Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic ...
experiences typhoons regularly. Tropical cyclones which impact southern China also lead to, on average, five heavy rainfall events per year across the Korean peninsula.
North Korea
Very heavy rains fell across Tongchon and Kosong counties during
Typhoon Rusa in 2002, where up to of precipitation fell in a 5- to 10-hour period.
South Korea
Madagascar
The north end of the island, known as the Tsaratanana Massif region, contains terrain with elevations up to 9417 feet/2880 meters.
Malaysia
Mauritius
Marshall Islands
Mexico
Hurricane Wilma
Hurricane Wilma was an extremely intense and destructive Atlantic hurricane which was the most intense storm of its kind and the second-most intense tropical cyclone recorded in the Western Hemisphere, after Hurricane Patricia in 2015. Part o ...
of 2005 drifted over the northeast portion of the Yucatán peninsula for a couple of days, dropping significant rains. A report of was reported by the
Servicio Meteorológico Nacional in Mexico, which is the wettest known 24-hour rainfall amount ever measured in Mexico. Second on the list is from
Tropical Storm Frances in 1998, which accumulated up to of rain at Independencia in southern
Chiapas
Chiapas (; Tzotzil and Tzeltal: ''Chyapas'' ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the states that make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 124 municipalities ...
. Below is a list of the highest known storm total rainfall amounts from individual tropical cyclones across Mexico. Most of the rainfall information was provided by the Mexico's National Weather Service, Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, which is a part of the National Water Commission, ''
Comisión Nacional del Agua''.
Federated States of Micronesia
Chuuk
Elevations of the islands surrounding Chuuk lagoon reach a height of about .
Typhoon Chataan
Typhoon Chataan, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Gloria, was the deadliest natural disaster in the history of Chuuk, a state in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). The typhoon formed on June 28, 2002, near the FSM, and for severa ...
led to excessive rainfall on this island from June 23 – July 3, 2002, when a total of fell. During the time frame when Chataan was declared a tropical cyclone from July 1–3, fell, with falling on the 2nd alone at the international airport.
Kosrae
Pohnpei State
The state is mountainous island lies in the tropical northwest Pacific Ocean.
Pohnpei State
Yap State
The wettest known tropical cyclone for the state was
Ruby in 1982, which drifted in the island's vicinity for several days during its initial development phase.
Mozambique
The elevation of the country increases to the west, with mountains on its highest plateau reaching nearly .
Myanmar
Nepal
Some of the highest elevations on the planet lie in Nepal. Eight out of fourteen highest peaks in the world lie in the Nepalese Himalaya including the highest peak of the World, Mt. Everest (8848 m). During a
tropical depression
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that affected the Indian Subcontinent in 2004, of rain fell at
Kathmandu
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airport in the 24‑hour period ending at 1200 UTC on October 7.
Netherlands Antilles
Saba
St. Eustatius
Saint Martin/Sint Maarten
This hilly island is partially owned by France and partially claimed by the Netherlands.
New Zealand
Most tropical cyclones which pass near New Zealand are in extratropical transition (ET) or have become extratropical, which can enhance their heavy rainfall threat.
Nicaragua
Niue
During the passage of Tropical Cyclone Heta in January 2004, the Niue Meteorological Station reported a record 24-hour rainfall of .
Oman
Pakistan
Tropical cyclones for the
Arabian Sea
The Arabian Sea ( ar, اَلْبَحرْ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Bahr al-ˁArabī) is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan, Iran and the Gulf of Oman, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channe ...
usually affect Pakistan. Tropical cyclones from the
Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line bet ...
can affect Pakistan, though they usually weaken by the time they reach the Pakistani coastline.
Palau
Palau consists of a string of islands that is rugged and surrounds a lagoon. Elevations up to exist within the island group.
Panama
Inflow to the south of
Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch is the second-deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record, causing over 11,000 fatalities in Central America in 1998, including approximately 7,000 in Honduras and 3,800 in Nicaragua due to cataclysmic flooding from the slow motion ...
brought impressive rainfalls to the Panama.
Veledero de Tole recorded of rainfall between October 22 and 31, 1998.
Philippines
This Philippines island archipelago is fairly mountainous, with the highest terrain found in Luzon.
Samoa
Singapore
Typhoon Vamei of December 20, 2001 was the only known storm to ever hit the island state. It dropped of rainfall.
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Tropical Cyclone Eline in February 2000 dropped significant rains on portions of South Africa. The highest amount noted was at Thohoyandou.
Spain
The only tropical cyclone to reach mainland Europe was 2005's
Hurricane Vince
Hurricane Vince was an unusual hurricane that developed in the northeastern Atlantic basin. Forming in October during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, it strengthened over waters thought to be too cold for tropical development. Vince was the ...
. It dropped of rain on the plain near Cordoba.
Sri Lanka
A
tropical depression
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in early October 2004 led to heavy rains across Sri Lanka. The maximum was measured at Galle where fell in the 24‑hour period ending at 0600 UTC on the 2nd.
St. Brandon, South Indian Ocean
Tropical Cyclone Darius of New Year's Eve/Day of 2003/2004 passed about west-northwest of the island. Rainfall over the 24‑hour period of closest approach was .
St. Kitts and Nevis
Taiwan
The mountainous island of
Taiwan
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experiences an average of 1.8 tropical cyclone landfalls each year. Due to its rugged topography, Taiwan sees extreme rains from tropical cyclones, particularly in its central mountain range.
Thailand
Tropical cyclones occasionally cross the
Malay Peninsula
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from the northwest Pacific into the Bay of Bengal.
Tonga
United Kingdom
Mainland
Anguilla
Bermuda
Bermuda has not historically received overwhelming rains out of tropical cyclones. This could be because of the rapid pace storms usually pass the island and the lack of mountains on the island.
Cayman Islands
United States
Vanuatu
Venezuela
A few tropical cyclones have skimmed the northern coast of South America over recent decades.
Tropical Storm Bret (1993)
Tropical Storm Bret was the deadliest natural disaster in Venezuela since the 1967 Caracas earthquake. The third tropical cyclone of 1993 Atlantic hurricane season, Bret formed on August 4 from a westward-moving, African tropical wave. Bret ...
dropped of rain in ten hours at
Guanare,
Portuguesa, Venezuela.
Vietnam
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China tropical cyclone rainfall climatology
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Extratropical cyclone
Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones, are low-pressure areas which, along with the anticyclones of high-pressure areas, drive the weather over much of the Earth. Extratropical cyclones are capable ...
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List of wettest tropical cyclones
This is a list of the wettest tropical cyclones, listing all tropical cyclones known to have dropped at least of precipitation on a single location. Data is most complete for Australia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, Yap, C ...
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List of wettest tropical cyclones in the United States
Tropical cyclones move into the contiguous United States from the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern Pacific Ocean. The highest rainfall totals in the country have been measured across the Gulf Coast and lower portions of the Ea ...
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Mexico tropical cyclone rainfall climatology
Mexico tropical cyclone rainfall climatology discusses precipitation characteristics of tropical cyclones that have struck Mexico over the years. One-third of the annual rainfall received along the Mexican Riviera and up to half of the rainfall re ...
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Tropical cyclone
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Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology
A tropical cyclone rainfall climatology is developed to determine rainfall characteristics of past tropical cyclones. A tropical cyclone rainfall climatology can be used to help forecast current or upcoming tropical cyclone impacts. The degree o ...
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Tropical cyclone rainfall forecasting
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Tropical cyclogenesis
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United States tropical cyclone rainfall climatology
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References
External links
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