Typhoon Linfa Disaster Responses Reports from Typhoon Linfa Central Emergency Operating Center 3rd Report
Central emergency operation center
Data updated until June 21 2009 22:30 CST
I.
1.
Typhoon summary (Data source: Central Agency of Disaster Mitigation and Prevention.)
The eye of typhoon Linfa was observed approximately on the sea surface 20 km north-northeast of Kinmen today (June 21) at 22:15 CST. The
Beaufort 7 storm radius of typhoon Linfa is 120km and is traveling with a speed turning from 20 to 24 km-per-hour and with a direction
turning from north-northeast to northeast. According to the most updated weather data, the eye of the 3rd typhoon had entered Mainland China
through Kinmen at approximately 22:00 on June 21. The strength of the typhoon had been slightly decreased during the past 3 hours, the storm
radius had also been shrunken, and the traveling speed had been decreased with a traveling direction of north-northeast. Rain and wind in
Kinmen area will continue and increasing strength of wind and amount of rain in Mazu area are all expected; however the strength of this
typhoon has a trend of decreasing in the future.
II.
Data of Disaster
A. Cumulative Rainfall
(Data source: Central Weather Bureau)
(Data collected from June 20, 00:00 CST to June 21, 20:00 CST) (unit: mm)
Area
Cumulative Rainfall
Tuban
Daren town, Taitung county
Honyeshan
Yenpin town Taitung county
Gaoliao
Yuli town Hualien county
330.5
233
188
B. Wind speed (Data source: Central Weather Bureau)
Area
Instantaneous Wind Speed (Beaufort scale)
Penhu Station,
10
Magung city, Penghu county
Kinmen,
9
Kinchen town, Kinmen county
III.
A.
Response to Disaster
Numbers and levels of established Emergency Operation Center
(Data source: National Fire Agency, Ministry of Interior)
Type
Numbers of
Emergency
Operation Center
Established
Location
1
Cities and
Counties
4
Harbors
0
B.
Level 1: Penghu County, Kinmen county, and Lienjian county
Level 2: Taipei county
Alerting Areas Classification (National Fire Agency, Ministry of Interior)
Amount of Alerting Area classified
Law enforcement status
City/county
Sea area
River area
Mountain area
Number of warning
Number of citation
notice established
established
Subtotal
Yunlin county
14
0
0
14
0
0
Chiayi county
3
0
0
3
0
0
Tainan county
10
1
16
27
0
0
Tainan city
3
0
0
3
0
0
6
0
0
6
0
0
9
0
0
9
0
0
1
1
1
3
0
0
6
0
0
6
0
0
18
0
1
19
0
0
70
2
18
90
0
0
Kaohsiung
county
Kaohsiung
city
Pintung
county
Penghu
county
Kinmen
county
Total
C. .Connection with Mountain-Climbing Travelers
(Data source: National Police Agency, Ministry of Interior)
Time
Mountain entering Have left mountain
Have acquired local
2
Leaving mountain Did not enter mountain Loss contact
applicants
areas
Case
Amount
of
people
391
3075
shelters
areas
areas after warning
Case
Amount
of
people
Case
Amount of
people
Case
Amount
of people
Case
Amount of
people
Case
Amount of
people
384
3035
5
34
2
6
457
3929
0
0
2009/06/21
20:00
(Note: The data of this chart is collected by department including Ministry of Education, Construction and
Planning Agency, Ministry of Interior, etc and is collated by National Police Agency, Ministry of Interior)
D. Ensconced Fishing Faculties from Mainland China (Data source: Commission of Agriculture of Executive
Yuan)
E.
Time
Ensconced in the
fishing facility
Ensconced in coast
settlement depots
Total
2009/06/21
14:00
1491
947
2438
Class and Work Cancellation status (Data source: National Fire Agency, Ministry of Interior)
All classes in Penghu county are cancelled on June 21
All classes and offices in Kinmen county are cancelled in the afternoon of June 21
IV.
Evacuation and Refuge
A. Evacuation population (Data source: Civil Affair Office)
City/County
Should be evacuated
Evacuated
Kinmen county
9
9
Total
9
9
B. Refugee status (Data source: Civil Affair Office)
Refuge opened: 1 location; 9 refugees
refuge
County/
town
city
End of
Housed
Evacuation
refugee
Start time
SubName
Note
total
Xiao-Chiu
Kinmen
Wuchiu
Civic
The time of
2009/06/21
2009/06/22
1
county
Town
end of
9
activity
12:00
center
17:00
evacuation is
temporary
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V.
Damage Toll
A. Human Life damage (data source: National Fire Agency) Total Injured: 17, total lost in contact: 2
City/County
Fatalty(person)
Lost in contact (person)
Injured(person)
Note
Two residents sharing a motorcycle (Shichen
Hwnag and Xinhuei Kuo) was scared by the
Tainan
0
county
0
2
falling tree on Changlung Road and Tongnin
road and injured due to fall at 07:35 on June
21.
Two Taoist priests were slightly injured by
falling coral rock wall that the rope of the
tent for funeral affairs attached at 11:03 on
Penghu
0
county
0
2
June 21. The falling wall was due to strong
wind and the two injured Taoist priests were
sent to Penghu Tri-Service General Hospital
at 11:29.
Total
0
0
4
(Note: 06201055 A resident (Chia-Lin Hsu) fell due to falling tree at the intersection of Tunpin Rd and Tunan Rd
in Tainan city at 10:55 on June 21 is not counted toward the damage from typhoon due to the fact that the
emergency operating center of that specific city has not yet been established at that time.
B.
Lifelines Damages (Data Source: Ministry of Economic Affairs and National Communication Commission)
Will be
Repaired
Affected
Damaged Item
repaired
Note
(household,
locations
(household,
location)
location)
Water
330
330
0
Electric pole collapsed due to fallin treein Kinsa town of Kinmen county
Electricity
3166
3163
3
and 3 households are out of power supply. Repairing processes is
estimated to be done at 09:00 on June 22.
Telephone (local phone)
0
0
0
Not yet repaired:14 in Kaohsiung city, 4 in Chiayi county, 1 in Pintung
Telephone (Base station)
65
51
14
county, and 5 in Kinmen county
All repairing processes are estimated to be done before 12:00 of June 22
C.
Other damage and trapped victims:
a.
Sea encroachment due to dike leakage in Yentien village of Chigu in Tainan county. There was a leakage
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of about 4 to 5 meters observed on the dike near Xiashanchishi to the direction of lagoon and near the
sea entrance in Yentien village of Chigu town and the fish farm in that area is flooded due to thesea
encroachment; sand bags has been used for emergency processes by Chigu town office. Water resource
agency is now handling the leakage on the dike and is now using steel plate to temporary block the
leakage and the blocking processes are had been done at 20:30
b.
6 news reporters and crews are trapped in Shanlinxi in Nantou county. Chao-Min Wang (program
director in TVBS), Pei-Chi Chen (filming assistant in TVBS), Shan-Ren Ma (magazine reporter of
Tienshia magazine), Xi-Yin Liu (magazine reporter of Business Weekly magazine), and Xien-Chun Yu
(local guide of Lu-Ye mountain climbing club) leaded by manager of Shanlinxi recreation area (Rei-Du
Liu, 0919-806228) were lost (location is reported to be Nantao 10 page 7U near Xichitou area). All
personnel does not have safety threats; 2 helicopters from National Airborne Service Crop had been sent
for rescuing but due to weather condition, rescuing processes were not successful. In addition, 12
volunteer police and firefighters were send for land rescuing by Fire department of Nantou county and 7
personnel (5 firefighters and 2 local rescuing team members, the other 5 personnel had left mountain
area) stayed at abandoned wood storage in Lucheshan due to weather condition and will resume rescuing
process tomorrow at 06: 00. Helicopters from fire department will incorporate with Airborne Service
Crop and rescuing processes will resume tomorrow at 06:00.
c.
All flights to and from off-shore islands were cancelled and all tourists were trapped. The manager of
Penhu county fire department Tun-Yi Chen was asked through telephone at 13:30 and said all the flights
were cancelled. Tourists traveled to Penghu area, including 1700 people in hotels and 600 people in local
mansion resorts (total of 2300 people). All flights will be operated normally tomorrow (June 22)
d.
Protective dike was flushed to break and awaiting for repair. This particular case is from the broken dike
damaged by typhoon Karmaegi of last year and is the upstream of the site of Shishuiko river construction
case; due to the incapacity of original designing corporation, they have been withdrawn from the contract
and Taichung county government had called for tender online again and the bidding processes will be
opened on June 29. Due to typhoon Linfa, Taichung county government had contacted contracted
companies to the site for basic fortification on June 18; the contracted companies were asked to retreat
from the construction site due to substantial amount of rainfall upstream and the repairing processes had
been resumed in the morning of June 20.
e.
Blocked flood drainage sewer in Tungshi of Chiayi. The site was inspected and this particular area is
close to the dock on Tsai-Xia Blvd in Tungshi village in Chaiyi county and is partially flooded with a
diameter of length of 100m and depth of 10cm. The flood does not affect traffic flow and communication
of personnel and no injured or trapped. 2 pumping machines were sent by Tungshi town office to the
tidal land for pumping the flood; the flood had been naturally receded and should not affect vehicles and
personnel communication.
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D.
Traffic Situation
A.
Road damage and Repair (Data source: Ministry of Transportation and Communication)
Damaged
Repaired
Awaiting
(location)
(location)
Repair(location)
Note
Road had been blocked by falling rock with a
diameter of length of 60m, width of 6m, and
height of 300m due to substantial amount of rain
County Freeway
1
1
0
up slope of Tai line 7 51K+300 at 06:00 on June
20. Traffic had been reopened at 09:30 on June
21.
Total
1
B.
Item Date and Time
0
Flights cancellation Status (Data source: Ministry of Communication and Transportation)
Airline
2009/06/21
1
1
Delay or
Reasons (airport closure,
canceled
weather, flights rearrangement)
Route and flight
Note
Kingmen, Makung, and
Domestic
06:50
198
Weather condition
5
Weather condition
Kaohsiung etc
2009/06/21
2
International
Hongkong
16:00
V.
Rescuing vessels sent for rescuing missions ( Data source: National Rescue Command Center)
5 helicopters and 8 vessels were mobilized up to 17:00 on today (June 21)
1.
Sand pump dredger (Anchin 1st) was broken down and abandoned at 23-22N, 120-07E (0.9 miles off-shor of
Budai shore) and 4 crew members were trapped. 1 aircraft from Ministry of National Defense and 2 vessels
from Coast Guard Agency were sent for rescuing and 4 crew members were rescued.
2.
May Day SOS signal from Colombo Queen (original vessel name: Taiyomaru No.3), MMSI 431400159, 498
Tons and 9 crew members were received at 20:25 on June 20 by Keelung shore station and the site is at
N21-45 E 120-49 (9 miles south of Eluanbi) and the central agency were notified through fax. 2 rescuing
aircraft from National Airbrone Service Crop and Ministry of National Defense, 5 vessels from Coast guard
agency, and one vessel from Ministry of National Defense were sent for rescuing. Safety boats were found at
04:06 on June 21 at off-shore of Jialoshui and 9 crew members were all safe.
3.
6 people were lost in Shanlinxi during mountain climbing and were reported at 13:39 on June 21 with one of
them dropping body temperature. They have requested helicopters for rescuing and 2 helicopters were sent for
rescuing but due to the weather condition, the helicopters were sent back and leave the land rescuing
personnel for rescuing.
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