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Super Typhoon Kent (international designation: 9211, JTWC designation: 11W) was a powerful and long-lived Category 4 typhoon that caused considerable and massive damage to Japan. The eighth typhoon and first super typhoon of the 1992 Pacific typhoon season, Kent developed as a tropical depression on August 5. It steadily intensified into a tropical storm the next day, then reaching typhoon status on August 10, 1990. Kent reached its peak intensity as a strong 240

Meteorological history
While the active Typhoon Janis was making its way towards the Ryukyu Islands, Kent developed as a tropical depression on August 5 about 1,230 kilometers ( south-southeast of Wake Island. Moving west-northwestwards at about 19 km/h, The depression steadily intensified on 6 August, and was given the name Kent.

That night, Tropical Storm Kent rapidly intensified and reached severe tropical storm strength. It weakened briefly to a tropical storm the next day but re-intensified into a severe tropical storm on August 9 as it moved west-northwestwards.

Kent became a typhoon about 1,340 kilometers (830 miles) west of Wake Island the following day and developed an eye. Kent attained peak intensity on August 12 when the maximum sustained winds reached (150 mph) and the minimum central pressure reading near its centre were estimated to be 910 mbar (hPa; 26.87 inHg) respectively. After moving north-northwestwards at 10 km/h (6 mph) for about three days, Kent turned west-northwestwards at 12 km/h (7 mph) and passed close to the Ogasawara Islands on August 15. Early the next day, it weakened to a severe tropical storm about 1,040 kilometers (650 miles) east-southeast of Kagoshima. On August 18, Tropical Storm Kent made landfall on the island of Kyushu, as a strong tropical storm. Kent degenerated into an area of low pressure over the coastal waters off eastern Kyushu shortly after having made landfall on the island.

Super Typhoon Kent produced extremely torrential rains to Kyushu and swept five people into the ocean before striking Japan. Kent produced extensive to extremely massive damages on the island. Waves battered the coast of the nation and two other people were reported as missing because of Kent. At the time, Kent was the wettest typhoon in the nation. The record has since been broken by future typhoons.