TROPICAL Storm Nongfa, which made landfall in central Vietnam this afternoon (Aug. 30) was around 180km from Bueng Khong Long district, Bueng Kan province, at 3 p.m. and once it reaches Thailand will unleash more rain across the country from today till Monday Sep. 1 with heavy to very heavy downpours accompanied by strong winds in many areas, the Thai Meteorological Department said.
This storm, named by Laos after a lake in the country, is the sixth to form in the South China Sea this year. On Aug. 26 Typhoon Kajiki moved to Thailand after making landfall in Vietnam unleashing torrential rain and landslides that killed at least five with seven missing while seven people were also killed in Vietnam.
Moving westwards at a speed of 25 km/hour with maximum sustained winds near the centre at 75 km/hr, Nongfa will downgrade to tropical depression as it moves through Laos after that downgrade to an active low-pressure cell. It will then move through a monsoon trough hanging across the North and Northeast till Monday.
Nongfa struck Vietnam’s north-central coast today with winds topping 74 kph, unleashing downpours that submerged roads and cut off dozens of mountain villages in Ha Tinh and Quang Tri provinces, VNExpress International said.
In Quang Tri, 24-hour rainfall totals exceeded 250 millimetres in places, swelling rivers and inundating spillway bridges. In Gia Gia hamlet, floodwaters nearly a metre deep stranded 900 residents, while 32 households in Xa Vi hamlet were left isolated after roads were submerged by 60 centimetres. Huong Lap commune recorded 258mm of rain, the highest in the province.
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