Typhoon No. 3 Yagi, one of the strongest storms of 2024, made landfall on Hainan Island, southern China on September 6. Typhoon Yagi is expected to make landfall in Vietnam on September 7.
The US Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) said that when it made landfall in China's Hainan Island Province at 4:20 p.m. on September 6, Typhoon Yagi was equivalent to a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic.
The eye of Typhoon Yagi passed directly through the city of Hai chau, China on the evening of September 6, local time, causing the strongest winds to hit the city.
Typhoon Yagi weakened as it moved into the Gulf of Tonkin but quickly reorganized overnight.
The latest storm forecast published in the New York Times notes that in the next 12 hours, very hot waters in the East Sea are likely to strengthen storm No. 3 to 210 km/h, or even higher, before making landfall near Hai Phong, Vietnam on September 7.
The forecast intensity of Typhoon Yagi when it makes landfall in Vietnam will be equivalent to a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic, the New York Times pointed out.
The US newspaper also noted that according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s historical typhoon database, no storm has made landfall in Vietnam at this intensity, especially in northern Vietnam.
Yagi, a storm that killed at least 16 people in the Philippines earlier this week, has become a super typhoon after a rapid intensification period in the East Sea, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said. The center defines a super typhoon as a typhoon with a speed of 240 km/h or more in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
According to a quick report on storm No. 3 issued at 9:00 a.m. on September 7 by the Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the center of storm Yagi is at about 20.5 degrees North latitude; 107.8 degrees East longitude in the waters of Quang Ninh - Hai Phong. The strongest wind of Typhoon Yagi is level 13-14 (134-166km/h), gusting to level 17. It is forecasted that in the next 3 hours, the storm will move west-northwest, at a speed of about 20km/h.
According to the emergency storm information of storm No. 3 issued by the Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting at 8:06 a.m. on September 7, due to the influence of the circulation of storm No. 3 on Bach Long Vi island, there are strong winds of level 12, gusting to level 14. Co To Island has strong winds of level 7, gusting to level 11. Mong Cai (Quang Ninh) strong winds of level 6, gusting to level 9. Cua Ong (Quang Ninh) level 8, gust level 9.
