| Hurricane Ioke 2006 or Typhoon Ioke 2006
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Hurricane(Typhoon) Ioke 2006 was the burly hurricane still recorded in the Central Pacific. The first typhoon to form in the Central Pacific in the 2006 Pacific hurricane season, Ioke was a record breaking, long-lived and enormously powerful hurricane that cross the Pacific for 19 days, reaching the counterpart of Category 5 hurricane status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale three times.
Statistics
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Active Dates
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Aug 20 , 2006 – Sep 06, 2006
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category
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Category 5 hurricane
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Highest winds
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195 km/h (120 mph) (10-minute sustained)
260 km/h (160 mph) (1-minute sustained)
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Lowest pressure
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915 hPa (mbar)
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Fatalities
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None reported
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Damage
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$88 million (2006 USD)
$94 million (2009 USD)
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Areas affected
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Johnston Atoll, Wake Island,
Minami Torishima, southern Alaska
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February 26, 2009
| Hurricane Hector 2006
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Hurricane Hector 2006 was the ninth tropical hurricane of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season. Hector begins from tropical waves that emerge from the western coast of Africa on July 31.
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Active Dates
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Aug 15 , 2006 – Aug 23, 2006
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category
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Category 2 hurricane
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Highest winds
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110 mph (175 km/h) (1-minute sustained)
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Lowest pressure
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953 mbar (hPa; 28.14 inHg)
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Fatalities
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None reported
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Damage
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None
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Areas affected
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No land areas
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