Powerful tropical storm Rammasun will enter the Gulf of Tonkin and head for Vietnam’s northern coastal Quang Ninh-Thai Binh area Friday evening after sweeping through China’s Hainan Island, the Vietnam National Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Center said.
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At 4:00 am this morning (Vietnam time), the storm was centered about 250 km north of Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel Islands) archipelago in the East Vietnam Sea, packing sustained winds of 150-166 kph and gusts of up to 220 kph.
The storm is moving west-northwest and northwest at a speed of 20 kph and is forecast to be seen 150 km east of the coastal region between Quang Ninh and Thai Binh Provinces at 4:00 am on Saturday, with maximum winds of 149 kph and squalls of 167-201 kph.
The typhoon will then move west-northwest at the same speed and at 4:00 am on Sunday, July 20, it will be centered off northeastern provinces, packing maximum winds of 74 kph in the storm’s eye, along with gusts of 75-88 kph.
The powerful storm will likely hit the Quang Ninh-Thai Binh coastal area at noon on Sunday, Le Thanh Hai, director of the center, said.
Due to the storm, the northern area of the East Vietnam Sea, including the sea of Hoang Sa, is experiencing rough waters and winds of 89-133 km, which will increase to 166 kph in areas near the storm’s eye, together with gusts of up to 220 kph.
As of Friday evening, the Gulf of Tonkin will see rough seas and have maximum winds of 149 kph and squalls of up to 183 kph. Sea waves there may be as high as 5-6 meters.
Meanwhile, northern and north-central provinces will have heavy rain and downpours, with winds ranging from 39-74 kph and gusts of up to 88 kph.
Flashfloods and landslides may occur in northern mountainous areas, the center warned.
Vietnam mobilizes all efforts to cope with Rammasun
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday sent a message to local authorities in northern provinces requesting them to focus on four important tasks in encountering the coming typhoon.
These tasks include closely following up on the typhoon’s movements; reviewing plans to cope with the storm when it lands; providing updated information about the typhoon for people so that they can take appropriate safety measures in time; and deploying urgent actions to minimize damage likely caused by the disaster.
Local authorities must postpone all meetings that are not urgent so that they can center all their efforts and time on coping with the storm, the message said.
At an online meeting held the same day with local authorities from Quang Ninh to Thanh Hoa provinces, Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai asked them to mobilize all resources to mitigate possible damage caused by the coming storm.
Do Trung Thoai, deputy chairman of the Hai Phong City People’s Committee, reported that local authorities had made a plan to evacuate nearly 88,000 households when necessary.
In an interview with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, Duong Anh Dien, chairman of the committee, said that by Friday, the authorities will move all residents in vulnerable areas to safe places and will also plant signs to give warnings to people about the dangerous areas.
Meanwhile, Quang Ninh provincial authorities last night reported that they had already moved 1,000 households from endangered locations to safe places and that all the local boats at sea had harbored in safe shelters.
All tourist ships have been banned from operating at sea from yesterday afternoon, the authorities said.
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