At a Glance

Typhoon Kammuri swept into the Philippines on December 2.Kammuri was a Category 4 equivalent typhoon prior to landfall.

Typhoon Kammuri, known locally as Tisoy, brought damaging winds and heavy rain to the Philippines after making a Category 4 landfall.

Kammuri made landfall late on Dec. 2 in the Bicol Region, about 240 miles southeast of Manila, the Philippines capital. Kammuri was briefly classified as a Category 4 storm by the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center, but its winds may have dropped below the Category 4 threshold prior to landfall.

Kammuri's northern eyewall, and eventually the eye itself, moved over Legazpi City (population around 182,000) and other parts of the Bicol Region of the central Philippines. The Philippines are 13 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Standard Time.

The airport in Legazpi City was damaged by high winds and heavy rain, the Associated Press reported.

More than 100,000 people were evacuated in areas prone to flooding and landslides before Kammuri arrived. There are reports of at least four deaths, according to AP.

Parts of the central Philippines have seen rainfall totals of 6 to 10 inches from Kammuri.

Kammuri rapidly intensified from Category 1 to Category 4 intensity in the 24 hours prior to landfall and was the strongest typhoon to landfall in the Philippines so far in 2019, according to .

The last Category 4 typhoon to make landfall in the central Philippines, Nock-Ten around Christmas 2016, claimed 24 lives and inflicted an estimated $103 million in damage, according to the international disaster database EM-DAT.

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