![Earth Shaker PH on X: "#OnThisDay in 1979, Super Typhoon Tip (#WarlingPH) broke records! Exactly 40 years ago, SUPER TYPHOON "TIP" became the most intense and the largest tropical cyclone in recorded Earth Shaker PH on X: "#OnThisDay in 1979, Super Typhoon Tip (#WarlingPH) broke records! Exactly 40 years ago, SUPER TYPHOON "TIP" became the most intense and the largest tropical cyclone in recorded](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGwgzBDUYAAwve9.jpg:large)
Earth Shaker PH on X: "#OnThisDay in 1979, Super Typhoon Tip (#WarlingPH) broke records! Exactly 40 years ago, SUPER TYPHOON "TIP" became the most intense and the largest tropical cyclone in recorded
![Micael Da Vialactea on X: "Well...if it's any consolation, #HurricaneIrma is less than a third of the size of Super Typhoon Tip (largest cyclone ever recorded). #wx https://t.co/6dG87knfEB" / X Micael Da Vialactea on X: "Well...if it's any consolation, #HurricaneIrma is less than a third of the size of Super Typhoon Tip (largest cyclone ever recorded). #wx https://t.co/6dG87knfEB" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJMIbPhVAAAejhT.jpg)
Micael Da Vialactea on X: "Well...if it's any consolation, #HurricaneIrma is less than a third of the size of Super Typhoon Tip (largest cyclone ever recorded). #wx https://t.co/6dG87knfEB" / X
OnThisDay 1979, Typhoon #Tip (Philippine name: #Warling) reached its peak intensity and became the largest and most intense tropical cyclone in history. It reached a maximum 10-min sustained winds of up to
![AccuWeather on X: "This week in 1979, the most powerful tropical storm in the history of weather records, Typhoon Tip, churned in the western Pacific. https://t.co/klVDOdMfxg" / X AccuWeather on X: "This week in 1979, the most powerful tropical storm in the history of weather records, Typhoon Tip, churned in the western Pacific. https://t.co/klVDOdMfxg" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGts_2TWwAAkZJE.jpg)