Typhoon Rusa
Hitting on 	August 22, 2002, Typhoon Rusa was the most powerful typhoon to strike South Korea in 43 years. It was the 21st Joint Typhoon Warning Center tropical depression, the 15th named storm, and the 10th typhoon of the 2002 Pacific typhoon season. It started on August 22 from the monsoon trough in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, well to the southeast of Japan. For several days, Rusa moved to the northwest, eventually growing into a powerful typhoon. On August 26, the storm moved across the Amami Islands of Japan, where Rusa left 20,000 people without power and caused two deaths. Across Japan, the typhoon dropped torrential rainfall peaking at  in Tokushima Prefecture.