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Ketsana shortly before being upgraded to a typhoon on September 28
Ketsana shortly before being upgraded to a typhoon on September 28

Typhoon Ketsana, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ondoy, was the second most devastating tropical cyclone in the 2009 Pacific typhoon season with a damage of $1.09 billion and 747 fatalities, only behind Morakot earlier in the season, which caused 789 deaths and damages worth $6.2 billion. The storm was the sixteenth tropical storm, eighth typhoon and the second major typhoon in the season. It was the most devastating typhoon to hit Manila,[1] surpassing Typhoon Patsy (Yoling) in 1970.

  1. ^ "Metro Manila, 25 provinces placed under state of calamity". GMANews.TV. 2009-09-26. Archived from the original on 2009-09-27. Retrieved 2009-12-09.