Question: Before becoming known as Noul, what was known as the second costliest United States Disaster in 2002?
Context: The Second International Pageant of Pulchritude and Eighth Annual Bathing Girl Revue was held from May 21 to May 23, 1927, in Galveston, Texas.  More contestants from outside the United States entered the pageant compared to the previous year, with women from Cuba, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, and Spain joining.  Canada and Mexico also sent delegates, as they had in 1926.  There were also 29 contestants from the United States.  An estimated 250,000 people attended the events during that weekend, and over $5000 in prizes were given to the winners.  The pageant was becoming known as an opportunity for potential movie and stage actresses to be discovered. The North American Drought of 1988 ranks among the worst episodes of drought in the United States.  This multi-year drought began in most areas in 1988 and continued into 1989.  The drought caused $60 billion in damage ($120 billion in 2014 United States dollars, adjusting for inflation).  The drought occasioned some of the worst blowing-dust events since 1977 or the 1930s in many locations in the Midwestern United States, including a protracted dust storm, which closed schools in South Dakota in late February 1988.  During the spring, several weather stations set records for lowest monthly total precipitation and longest interval between measurable precipitation, for example, 55 days in a row without precipitation in Milwaukee.  During the summer, two record-setting heat waves developed, similar to those of 1934 and 1936.  The concurrent heat waves killed 4,800 to 17,000 people in the United States.  During the summer of 1988, the drought led to many wildfires in forested western North America, including the Yellowstone fires of 1988.  At its peak, the drought covered 45% of the United States.  While covering less area than the Dust Bowl, which covered 70% of the United States, the drought of 1988 ranks as not only the costliest drought in United States history but also the costliest natural disaster in United States history before Hurricane Katrina.  In Canada, drought-related losses added to $1.8 billion (1988 Canadian dollars). The 2012–13 North American drought, an expansion of the 2010–13 Southern United States drought, originated in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave.  Low snowfall amounts in winter, coupled with the intense summer heat from La Niña, caused drought-like conditions to migrate northward from the southern United States, wreaking havoc on crops and water supply.  The drought has inflicted, and is expected to continue to inflict, catastrophic economic ramifications for the affected states.  It has exceeded, in most measures, the 1988–89 North American drought, the most recent comparable drought, and is on track to exceed that drought as the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. The name Noul has been used to name three tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.  The name was contributed by North Korea and it means glowing or sunset.  This name replaced Pongsona after 2002 Pacific typhoon season and it means for garden balsam. Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) is one of the three major ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside The Royal Ballet and the English National Ballet.  Founded as the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, the company was established in 1946 as a sister company to the earlier Sadler's Wells company, which moved to the Royal Opera House that same year, subsequently becoming known as The Royal Ballet.  The new company was formed under the direction of John Field and remained at Sadler's Wells for many years, becoming known as the Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet.  It also toured the UK and abroad, before relocating to Birmingham in 1990, as the resident ballet company of the Birmingham Hippodrome.  In 1997, the Birmingham Royal Ballet became independent of the Royal Ballet in London.  As a resident company, Birmingham Royal Ballet has extensive custom-built facilities, including a suite of dance studios, the "Jerwood Centre for the Prevention and Treatment of Dance Injuries" and a studio theatre known as the "Patrick Centre".  In 2002, the need for Birmingham Royal Ballet to have its own school led to a new association with Elmhurst School for Dance, which is now its official ballet school. The 1992 Atlantic hurricane season had one of the latest dates on record for the first named storm.  The season officially began on June 1, 1992, and lasted until November 30, 1992.  The first storm, an unnamed subtropical storm, developed in the central Atlantic on April 21, over a month before the official start of hurricane season.  The most significant storm of the season was Hurricane Andrew, which at the time was the costliest United States hurricane.  After crossing the Bahamas, the hurricane made landfall in Florida and Louisiana.  It caused $26 billion (1992 USD) in damage, mostly in Florida, and 65 fatalities.  Andrew was also the strongest hurricane of the season, reaching winds of 175 mph (280 km/h) while approaching Florida. The 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that devastated much of the East Coast of the United States, starting with Florida's Cedar Keys, near the end of September 1896.  The storm's rapid movement allowed it to maintain much of its intensity after landfall and cause significant damage over a broad area; as a result, it became one of the costliest United States hurricanes at the time.  The fourth tropical cyclone of the 1896 Atlantic hurricane season, it formed by September 22, likely from a tropical wave, before crossing the Caribbean Sea just south of the Greater Antilles.  It entered the Gulf of Mexico as the equivalent of a major hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale, and struck the Cedar Keys—an offshore island chain that includes the island and city of Cedar Key—early on the morning of September 29 with winds of 125 mph (205 km/h).  The area was inundated by a devastating 10.5 ft storm surge that undermined buildings, washed out the connecting railroad to the mainland, and submerged the smaller, outlying islands, where 31 people were killed.  Strong winds also destroyed many of the red cedar trees that played an important role in the economy of the region. The effects of Hurricane Wilma in Florida were catastrophic, becoming the second costliest Florida hurricane ever recorded.  Hurricane Wilma was first evident near Jamaica and was classified as a hurricane on October 18.  Initially, orange future prices soared on October 19, 2005.  As the system drew closer, schools and government offices closed on October 21.  Professional and college sports games were rescheduled during Wilma's advance towards Florida.  Evacuations were ordered for southwestern Florida and the Keys.  As the storm made landfall, a storm surge swept into coastal sections of southern Florida and high winds led to significant damage near and along Wilma's path, particularly to the power grid.  Some locations were without power for 2–3 weeks after the storm.  Wilma spawned ten tornadoes in Florida.  At least 35 Wilma-related deaths were reported in the United States, all in Florida.  Wilma was also blamed for at least 26 indirect deaths.  Damage in Florida totaled $20.6 billion (2005 USD; $22.7 billion 2008 USD). The tornado outbreak sequence of May 21–26, 2011 was a deadly series of tornado activity across the Midwestern and Southern regions of the United States.  It was one of the largest tornado outbreaks on record.  Most of the tornadoes developed in a corridor from Lake Superior southwest to central Texas; isolated tornadoes occurred in other areas.  An especially destructive tornado destroyed one-third of Joplin, Missouri, resulting in 162 deaths and 1000 injuries.  The Joplin tornado is the deadliest in the US since April 9, 1947, when an intense tornado killed 181 in the Woodward, Oklahoma area.  Tornado-related deaths also occurred in Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota, and Oklahoma.  Overall, the tornado outbreak resulted in 184 deaths, 6 of those non-tornadic, making it second only to the 2011 Super Outbreak as the deadliest since 1974, and the second costliest tornado outbreak in US history behind that same April 2011 outbreak, with insured damage estimated at $4–7 billion. Typhoon Pongsona was the last typhoon of the 2002 Pacific typhoon season, and was the second costliest United States disaster in 2002, only behind Hurricane Lili.  The name "Pongsona" was contributed by North Korea for the Pacific tropical cyclone list and is the Korean name for the garden balsam.  Pongsona developed out of an area of disturbed weather on December 2, and steadily intensified to reach typhoon status on December 5.  On December 8 it passed through Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands while near its peak winds of 175 km/h (110 mph ).  It ultimately turned to the northeast, weakened, and became extratropical on December 11.
Answer: Typhoon Pongsona