The name Tembin has been used for four
tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean. The name, contributed by Japan, is the Japanese name for the constellation
Libra.
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Tropical Storm Tembin (2000)
The 2000 Pacific typhoon season marked the first year using names contributed by the World Meteorological Organization. It was a rather below-average season, producing a total of 23 tropical storms, 13 typhoons and 4 intense typhoons. The season r ...
(T0005, 09W) – not a threat to land while tropical.
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Tropical Storm Tembin (2005)
The 2005 Pacific typhoon season was the least active typhoon season since 2000, producing 23 named storms, of which 13 became typhoons (including 4 super typhoons). It was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation, in which tropi ...
(T0522, 23W, Ondoy) – crossed the Philippines.
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Typhoon Tembin (2012)
Typhoon Tembin, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Igme, was an intense tropical cyclone in the Western Pacific Ocean that had an unusual trajectory, approaching Taiwan twice. Tembin, which means Libra in Japanese, was the eighth typhoon and the ...
(T1214, 15W, Igme) - made landfall in Taiwan twice.
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Typhoon Tembin
Typhoon Tembin, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Vinta, was the deadliest tropical cyclone to strike Mindanao since Typhoon Bopha in 2012. Following and impacting the Philippines less than a few days after the deadly Tropical Storm Kai-tak, Te ...
(2017) (T1727, 33W, Vinta) – devastated southern Philippines killing over 266 people.
The name ''Tembin'' was retired by the WMO in 2018, and replaced with ''Koinu'' in 2019, which means
puppy or the constellation
Canis Minor
Canis Minor is a small constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere. In the second century, it was included as an asterism, or pattern, of two stars in Ptolemy's 48 constellations, and it is counted among the 88 modern constellation ...
in Japanese.
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Typhoon Koinu (2023) (T2314, 14W, Jenny) - a very powerful Category 4 typhoon that lashed
Southern Taiwan and
Batanes
Batanes, officially the Province of Batanes ( ivv, Provinsiya nu Batanes; Ilocano: ''Probinsia ti Batanes''; fil, Lalawigan ng Batanes, ), is an archipelagic province in the Philippines, administratively part of the Cagayan Valley region. It i ...
in early October 2023.
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