The name Soulik (
) has been used to name four
tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depend ...
s in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The name was contributed by the
Federated States of Micronesia
The Federated States of Micronesia (; abbreviated FSM) is an island country in Oceania. It consists of four states from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosraethat are spread across the western Pacific. Together, the states comprise a ...
and is the traditional title of chiefs on
Pohnpei
Pohnpei "upon (''pohn'') a stone altar (''pei'')" (formerly known as Ponape or Ascension, Proto-Chuukic-Pohnpeic: ''*Fawo ni pei)'' is an island of the Senyavin Islands which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group. It belongs to Pohnpei ...
.
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Typhoon Soulik (2000) (T0023, 34W, Welpring) – a December storm that never threatened land.
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Typhoon Soulik (2006) (T0618, 21W) – affected the Marianas and Volcano Islands.
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Typhoon Soulik (2013)
Typhoon Soulik, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Huaning, was a powerful tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in Taiwan and East China in July 2013. The storm originated from an upper-level cold-core low well to the northeast of Guam ...
(T1307, 07W, Huaning) – struck Taiwan and China.
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Typhoon Soulik (2018)
Typhoon Soulik was an unusually large, and the deadliest typhoon to strike the Korean Peninsula since Khanun in 2012. Soulik formed from an area of low pressure on August 15, and was the twenty-ninth tropical depression, twentieth tropical storm ...
(T1819, 22W), a deadly and strong typhoon that affected Japan
References
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Pacific typhoon set index articles