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Kyushu zone storm zone of “ 25 m / sec or more ”
Evacuation order and recommendation to 8.8 million people
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The 10th Typhoon High Line, accompanied by violent winds and rain clouds, is moving to the Korean Peninsula through the Kyushu region in southern Japan.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the High Line is moving north at 35 km / h from 80 km southwest of Tsushima city in Nagasaki prefecture as of 5 am on the 7th. The High Line maintains a central air pressure of 945 hPa (hectopascals), a maximum wind speed of 45 m near the center and an instantaneous maximum wind speed of 60 m, accompanied by storms of 25 m per second or more within 280 km to the east from the center and 165 km west of the center. Currently, most of the Kyushu region, including Nagasaki prefecture, and parts of the Chugoku region, including Yamaguchi prefecture, are in the storm zone.
At 2 am that day, the strongest instantaneous wind speed of 59.4 m was observed in Nomozaki, Nagasaki City, as the statistics were compiled by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The High Line is moving towards the Korean Peninsula while maintaining strong forces, recording an instantaneous maximum wind speed of 41.6m in Saga City around 3:30 am that day. If the wind speed is more than 40m, the truck being driven will fall down, and if it exceeds 60m, the house may be destroyed.
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Japan’s Meteorological Agency said the atmosphere has become unstable over a wide range outside Kyushu, near typhoons, and rain clouds are forming, demanding preparation for heavy damage from the rains. Starting at 4 am that day, heavy rains of 34mm per hour are observed in Mie prefecture, and heavy local rains fall across the entire Japanese archipelago. Disaster warnings have been issued on land and sand in Nagasaki, Miyazaki, Kumamoto and Tokushima prefectures, where the risk of disasters such as landslides has increased due to heavy rains.
In the southwestern regions of the Japanese archipelago, such as Kyushu, Shikoku, and Chugoku, which are in the upper-line sphere of influence, each local government instructs or recommends the evacuation of 4.1 million homes and 8.8 million persons. According to NHK statistics, at 5 am on the 7th, a total of 24 people, including those who fell due to the strong winds in the Kyushu region, were injured. Power outages were also cut in some 230,000 households, representing more than 20% of all households in Kagoshima prefecture. In the Kyushu region as a whole, a total of 464,000 households are experiencing a blackout.
/ Reporter Kihyuk Kim [email protected]
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