The name Babs has been used for 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 northwest Pacific Ocean.
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Typhoon Babs (1951)
The 1951 Pacific typhoon season was a generally below average season with multiple tropical cyclones striking the Philippines. With the exception of January, each month saw at least one tropical system develop; October was the most active month wit ...
(T5121)
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Typhoon Babs (1956)
The 1956 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1956, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when ...
(T5609), struck Japan
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Tropical Storm Babs (1959)
The 1959 Pacific typhoon season was regarded as one of the most devastating years for Pacific typhoons on record, with China, Japan and South Korea sustaining catastrophic losses.
The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north o ...
(T5917, 41W), struck Taiwan
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Typhoon Babs (1998)
Typhoon Babs, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Loleng, was a powerful typhoon that struck the Philippines days after Typhoon Zeb hit the same area. The seventh typhoon of the inactive 1998 Pacific typhoon season, Babs formed on October 1 ...
(T9811, 20W, Loleng), Category 4 super typhoon; struck the Philippines, resulting in 156 deaths and heavy flooding
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