3rd Emergency Report of Typhoon Linfa
Report Unit: Central Disaster Emergency Operation Center
Deadline: 2015/07/08 10:00
1. Briefing (Data source: Central Weather Bureau)
The sea warnings of weak typhoon Linfa were in effected on July 6, 2015 8:30, the sea and land
warnings were in effected on July 7, 2015 2:30, and the land warning was lifted on July 7, 14:30. The eye of
the storm on 8th 08:00 were at 21.3 Lat (N), 118.7 Lon (E), the 240 kilometers west-south-west of Eluanbi;
the radius was 120 km with 7 wind level, moving at 7 kilometers per hour and turned to north-north-west and
is now heading to north-west. The maximum sustained wind near the center was 25 meter per sec. (approx.
90 km/h.), which equaled to level 10 wind. The transient wind was 33 meter per sec. (approx. 119 km/h.),
which equaled to level 12 wind. The estimation position tomorrow (9th) 08:00 is at 22.5 Lat (N), 117.7 Lon
(E), the 220 kilometers west-south-west of Penghu. The latest data indicated that the eye of the storm is
currently at west-south-west of Eluanbi and will turn to west-north. The typhoon radius has entered the south
of Taiwan. The estimate warning areas included Bashi Channel, seas of Dongsha Island and Taiwan Strait
(included Lanyu, Green Island). Fishing boats should take extra precaution. There is possibility of heavy
rainfall or torrential rain in area of Taitung and Pingtung today (8). South areas, central mountain areas and
Hualien have high possibility of district heavy rainfall or torrential rain. Penghu, areas from Changhua to
Chiayi and in Nantou have chances of district heavy rainfall as well and should watch out for landslides and
falling rocks, while preventing for flood in low-lying areas. For the effect of circulating currents in the
typhoon's periphery, coast areas (included Lanyu and Green Island), Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu will
experience strong winds and the possibility of long wave occurrence, and Penghu and the south-west coasts
(inculded Liuqiu) have especially high waves. The activities on or nearby the sea should be avoided.
2. Basic information of disaster (Data source: Central Weather Bureau)
Rainfall (Statistics from Jul. 6th, 00:00 to Jul. 8th, 08:00) (Unit: mm)
Regions
Rainfall (mm)
Shimen, Mudan Township, Pingtung County
332.0
Binlang, Manzhou Township, Pingtung County
320.5
Xuhai, Mudan Township, Pingtung County
313.5
Jialeshuei, Mudan Township, Pingtung County
301.0
3. Response
1. The establish situation of Disaster Respond Centers in countries (Data source: National Fire Agency)
Category
Established
Name of country(ies) or county(ies)
Country and county
1
Level 1: Kinmen County
Harbor
2
Level 2: Taichung harbor, Hualien harbor
2. Designation of warning areas (0 in low-lying areas, 38 in mountain areas, 29 in shores, 57 in river
basins and 1 in other areas and have issued 0 warning ticket and 0 fine ticket) (Data source: National
Fire Agency)
Category
Designation
Low-lying
areas
Total
0
Taichung
0
Chiayi
0
Tainan
0
Kaoshiung
0
Pingtung
0
Penghu
0
Kinmen
0
Mountain
areas
38
5
0
17
6
8
0
2
Shores
29
0
0
14
2
1
6
6
River
basins
57
0
2
0
40
15
0
0
Others
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
Issued
warning ticket
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Issued fine
ticket
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3. Announcement of landslide warning area (Data source: Soil and Water Conservation Bureau)
Category
Landslide warning area
Code yellow
Code red
Total
Landslide
Local
Local
Landslide
Local
Local
Landslide
potential
county
village
potential
county
village
potential
rivers
rivers
rivers
Pingtung
2
1
2
0
0
0
2
Total
2
1
2
0
0
0
2
Note: Conduct:
1. Code yellow (the estimated rainfall is higher than the landslide warning criterion): District
governments should perform the evacuation advice
2. Code red (the actual rainfall is higher than the landslide warning criterion): District governments
should give order of the mandatory evacuation based on the local rainfall and actual situation.
4. Communication to hikers (Data source: National Police Agency)
Form filled in: July 8th 2015 08:00
Submit
Case
s
436
Cancelled after
advising
Person
s
2820
Case
s
353
Person
s
2261
Communicated
Off the
mountain
Case Person
s
s
80
544
Safe house
Evacuated
Leaving
Case
s
1
Case
s
0
Case
s
1
Person
s
1
Person
s
0
Haven’t
responded
Person
s
13
Case
s
1
Person
s
1
(Note: “Haven’t responded” referred to the hikers in the mountain haven’t connected with personnel,
family or police for over 48 hours. The form is filed and reported by National Police Agency and
Construction and Planning Agency.)
5. The settling of Fishermen of Mainland China (Data source: Council of agriculture)
Time
Settled persons on the
Settled persons on the
Total
ship
ground
2015/07/08 08:00
1452
164
1616
4. Capacity of National Military
1. Evacuation persons (Data source: Department of Civil Affairs)
Municipal City (County) Estimate evacuation
Added actual evacuation
category
persons
persons
Total evacuation
persons
Tainan City
33
33
33
Kinmen County
19
19
19
Kaoshiung City
25
25
25
Total
77
77
77
2. Settling
(1) Shelter (Data source: Ministry of Health and Welfare)
3 total shelters, 41 total settling persons, 3 currently available shelters, 3 settling persons currently
Category
Number of country,
Number of shelter
Settling persons
county, town and village
Kaoshiung City
2
2
22
Kinmen County
1
1
19
Total
3
3
41
(2) Resident settlement camps in total (Data source: Ministry of National Defense)
Capacity of National Military: 91 resident settlement camps in total
Chart of residence settlement camps planned by National Military
Category
3rd Combat Area
5th Combat Area
4th Combat Area
(North)
(Central)
(South)
Camps
28
35
20
Total
91
Capacity
2424
2156
5096
Total
10946
2nd Combat area
(East)
8
1270
5. Statistics of disaster
1. Casualty (Data source: National Fire Agency)
No casualty
2. Disaster of critical infrastructure (Data source: Ministry of Economy, NCC)
No disaster
3. Traffic (Data source: Ministry of Transportation and Communication)
(1) Suspension of airline (Total 28 in 8 days; 16 national, 12 international)
(2) Suspension of shipping (Total 74 in 8 days)
(3) Flood situation (Data source: Ministry of Economy)
Category Location
Starting
Ending
Depth
Measure
Flood
(m)
household
(㎡)
Pingtung No.580, Sec. 2,
07/07
07/07
Shengbei Rd.,
0.0
0.0
0
Hengchun Township,
09:42
11:22
Pingtung County
Tainan
No.105, Dongguang
07/07
07/07
St., Xinying Dist.,
0.0
0.0
0
14:12
21:00
Tainan City
Tainan
No.463, Sec. 2,
07/07
07/07
Xinjin Rd., Xinying
0.0
0.0
0
14:14
21:00
Dist., Tainan City
Tainan
Hsing Kuo High
07/07
07/07
School, Minzhi Rd.,
0.0
0.0
0
Xinying Dist., Tainan
14:10
21:00
City
Note
Receded
Receded
Receded
Receded
Yunlin
Underground
passage, Liupei,
Douliu City, Yunlin
County
Receded
07/07
15:33
07/07
21:00
0.0
0.0
0
Total
0
6. Response of national military supporting countries in disaster
1. Equipment of disaster response team (Data source: Ministry of National Defense)
(1st disaster response team is 3200 persons in total and departed after received the order in 10 mins. 2nd
disaster response team is 4800 persons in total and departed after received the order in3 hrs. The total
military force is 8000 in total)
Chart of disaster response teams of national military in Taiwan area
Category
3rd Combat Area
5th Combat Area
4th Combat Area
(North)
(Central)
(South)
st
1 disaster
800
800
800
response team
Total
3200
2nd disaster
1200
1200
1200
response team
Total
4800
2nd Combat area
(East)
800
1200
2. Deployment of reserve military force in high-danger areas (Data source: Ministry of National Defense)
(Total 224 of deployment of reserve military force in high-danger areas, with 24 vehicles in 6 kinds)
Chart of reserve military force and machines
Category
3rd Combat
5th Combat
4th Combat
2nd Combat
Total
Area (North)
Area (Central) Area (South)
area (East)
Place
Chiayi
Kaoshiung,
Pingtung
Front line force
0
134
655
0
789
Reserve
0 in 0 kinds
2 in 20 kinds
2 in 20 kinds
0 in 0 kinds
4 in 40 kinds
machines