The storm forecast bulletin of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration and the Vietnam National Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Center both said that at 4:00 a.m. on October 1, the center of storm No. 5 Krathon was at about 20.6 degrees north latitude; 119.8 degrees east longitude, in the northeastern sea of the North East Sea.
The strongest wind near the storm center is level 16 (184-201 km/h), gusting to level 17 (230 km/h), with a central pressure of 925 hPa. Storm-force winds spread out to 620 km from the storm center.
The storm is moving west northwest at about 5 km/h.
According to current forecasts, storm No. 5 is unlikely to affect coastal and mainland areas of Vietnam.
However, the northeastern sea area of the North East Sea (north of latitude 18 degrees north; east of longitude 116.5 degrees east) has strong winds of level 10-13, near the storm center of level 14-16, gusting over level 17, waves 7-9m high; rough seas.
Ships operating in the above mentioned dangerous areas are susceptible to the effects of storms, whirlwinds, strong winds and large waves.
For the Philippines, the wind flow toward the storm's circulation may also bring strong gusts to exposed coastal and upland areas such as Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, northern and eastern parts of mainland Cagayan, eastern parts of Isabela, Aurora, Zambales, Bataan, Metro Manila, Calabarzon, Romblon and Camarines Norte.
PAGASA forecasts moderate to high risk of life-threatening high waves in the next 48 hours in low-lying or exposed coastal localities of Batanes and Babuyan Islands.
Severe storm warnings have been issued for the northern and western coasts of Northern Luzon.
Rough seas with waves up to 7m high on the Batanes coast; 6m on the Babuyan Islands and Ilocos Norte coast; 4.5m on the northern coast of Ilocos Sur.
Typhoon Krathon (Julian) is expected to recurve towards the southwestern sea of Taiwan (China) from October 1 to the morning of October 2.
According to the forecast track, the super typhoon will make landfall along the southwestern coast of Taiwan (China) in the morning or afternoon of October 2. The storm will cross the rugged terrain of Taiwan before emerging over the sea east of Taiwan tomorrow evening or early Thursday morning. The storm will then move northeast toward the East China Sea, exiting the Philippine Forecast Area (PAR) in the afternoon or evening of October 3, and then turn northwest on Friday, October 4 as it crosses the East China Sea.
The storm still has a chance to continue to strengthen briefly in the next 24 hours. After that, increasing interaction with the mountainous terrain of Taiwan (China) will weaken the storm slightly before making landfall.
