Hainan in emergency mode for typhoon
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South China’s Hainan Province initiated an emergency response early yesterday as it braces for Typhoon Nari which is expected to arrive near the Xisha Islands today.
The center of Nari was located at 15.3 north latitude, 114.2 east longitude, 260 kilometers southeast from Hainan’s Sansha City at 11 am yesterday, with winds of up to 137km per hour. It moved westward at a speed of 15km per hour, the Hainan provincial meteorological station said yesterday.
Around 27,000 fishing boats were called back to port by 9am. All fishermen from Yongle Islands, where the typhoon is expected to hit hard, were relocated to Jinqing Island.
The National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center has raised the emergency response to level two, predicting waves up to 10 meters in the South China Sea and between 2.5 and 3.5 meters off the east and south coasts of Hainan Province.
A storm tide is expected to sweep through the Leizhou Peninsular, Hainan Island and coasts of Beibu Gulf until Thursday.
Nari tore into the Philippines northeast coast early on Saturday and cut a westward path through the farming regions of Luzon.
Thirteen people were killed as the storm ripped off roofs of homes and buildings, toppling trees and triggering flash floods and landslides before blowing away into the South China Sea. Some agricultural areas remained inundated, although the waters were subsiding.
Many of the more than 43,000 people displaced by the storm began returning home as the government lifted all storm warnings there. However, the state weather bureau issued a warning for the country’s east. It said Tropical Storm Wipha was 1,460 kilometers away and could reach Philippine seas today.
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