On November 8, 2013, Typhoon 1330 (hereinafter, T1330), named Haiyan in Asia or Yolanda in the Philippines, crossed the Leyte Gulf in the east-central Philippines with a 895 hPa central pressure, and triggering disastrous storm surge flooding, in particular at Tacloban which is located on San Pedro and San Pablo Bay in the northwest head of Leyte Gulf. Unfortunately no tide record and no wave data are available for the Leyte Gulf coast during the passage of T1330. Therefore, the field surveys of the damage to port facilities, the effects of wind, storm surge and waves of T1330 were carried out at Tacloban Port and Airport on Leyte Island and at several ports on Panay Island, where T1330 crossed with high intensity. Those surveys include the interviews on the evacuation attitudes of residents against storm surges. Moreover, this study estimated the storm surges and waves due to T1330 and model typhoons having parallel tracks to T1330 in the middle-latitude zone of the Philippines by using numerical simulation.
　This paper summarizes the results of field surveys, characteristics of T1330 and those model typhoons, and the advantages and the problems of locating public facilities along coast for safe evacuation during and after storm surges. The major outputs are as follows:
(1) The windows and roofs of the port office buildings were broken owing to intense wind at most of the ports.
(2) As sufficient temporary evacuation facilities are required for safety evacuation around a coastal area, the existing multistory buildings with RC structures, such as port management offices, are expected to be used for temporary evacuation.
(3) The simulation with T1330-based model typhoons showed that the storm surge can exceed 3m not only around Tacloban and Estancia.
(4) The simulation led at Tacloban that the storm surge waveform began with a trough due to north wind and subsequently showed a quick rise up due to the suction-induced crest and the drift by south wind.