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Typhoon 9 ‘Mysak’ approached Jeju at 7pm on the 2nd, and strong winds with an instantaneous top speed of 50m per second and heavy rains of more than 100mm per hour flooded the roads, and more than 10,000 homes suffered electrostatic damage.
At 8pm that day, Typhoon Mysak was traveling from north to northeast at a fairly high speed of 32 km / h at sea about 120 km southeast of Seogwipo. Generally, when a typhoon is moving at high speed, the energy tends to weaken, but the central pressure remains at 945 hPa and the force of the typhoon is still very strong.
Among the maximum instantaneous wind speeds recorded by the Meteorological Administration up to 6 p.m. this day, the strongest recorded 49.2 m / s (177 km / h) in the Gosan area of Jeju. Also, 38.1 m / s (137 km / h) in Saebyeoloreum, 35.9 m / s (129 km / h) in Jigwido, 33.1 m / s (119 km / h) in Witsaeoreum and 39.3 m / s in Ganyeoam in Yeosu. 141km / h) strong winds were recorded.
With very heavy rains of more than 100mm per hour in the Jeju Mountains, the amount of precipitation has already exceeded the amount expected by the Meteorological Agency. The accumulated amount of precipitation from 0 am to 7 pm that day was 655 mm recorded at Witsaeoreum. Heavy rains of 570mm, 551mm and 512mm were poured in Priestbi Garden, Yeongsil and Eorimok, respectively. In Saebyeoloreum, a precipitation of 303 mm and Geumak 296 mm was recorded.
According to the Jeju Regional Headquarters of the Korea Electric Power Corporation, 11,000 homes have been blocked from Hogeun-dong, Seogwipo-si that day at 9:43 am to the current day at 7 pm. The damaged locations were Yeondong and Nohyeong-dong, Aewol-eup, Ido-dong, Yongdam-dong, Hallim-eup, Seogwipo-si, Seongsan-eup, Beophwan-dong, Pyoseon-myeon, Hogeun-dong, Daejeong-eup and Jejeong-eup in Namwon-eup.
Among them, 7,000 homes have not been restored to electricity until 7 pm that day.
According to Jeju Island, as of 7pm on the day a total of 81 damage to the facilities was recorded due to strong winds and heavy rains. Damage is still reported. The number of cases handled by the Jeju Autonomous Province Fire Safety Headquarters is currently 141.
43 public facilities were damaged, including 18 trees in the streets, 3 streetlights, 4 telephone poles, 3 traffic lights, 2 unmanned cameras, 10 traffic lights and 3 center dividers.
Even at private facilities, 13 signs, 5 roofs, 3 solar panels, 4 building exteriors, 1 plastic house, 4 windows, 2 posters, and 5 building materials were reported to have been damaged or lost. A pleasure boat moored in Four Gye harbor also sank. Fortunately, there has been no human damage so far.
In Oedo-dong, nearby residents were evacuated to Woldae City Hall due to the danger of flooding the Woldaecheon Stream.
The second mountain road between the Tamnadae intersection and the Finks golf course and the ring road that replaces the national road between the Sangchang intersection and the Seogwipo hotel entrance are flooded and the operation of the vehicle is fully controlled. The roads near Saekdalcheon, Saekdal-dong, Seogwipo-si, are also in a difficult traffic state due to rainwater spilling onto the road due to the flooding of the river.
Mysak is expected to reach the sea about 70 km southwest of Busan by midnight on the 3rd, and Jeju is also expected to remain under the direct influence of the typhoon.
It is anticipated that it will be possible to escape the sphere of influence until around 6 a.m. on the 3rd. The typhoon is expected to die out only when it reaches Chongjin, China, at 6 p.m. on the 3rd.
The Meteorological Administration requested that there be no typhoon damage saying it will rain more than 400mm on the condition that a lot of rain of 500mm or more has fallen in the Jeju Mountains by day 3.
