Typhoon #17 – Amami region is the storm region
The extremely strong Typhoon #17 has enveloped the Okinawa
main island region and the Amami region of Kagoshima prefecture, and is moving
north.
A violent wind is blowing on the Okinawa main island, and a
maximum instantaneous wind speed of more than 50 meters is being observed.
According to an
announcement by the Meteorological Agency, the extremely strong Typhoon
#17 will progress on the sea 40 kilometers north-northwest of Naha City at a
speed of 25 kilometers per hour on the 29th at 11am. The central air
pressure is 930 hectopascals, the center’s maximum wind speed is 45 meters, the
maximum instantaneous wind speed is 65 meters, and the storm is blowing at a
speed of more than 25 meters as the southeast side of the center is more than
220 kilometers and the northwest side of the center is more than 190 kilometers.
Now, the Okinawa main island region and the Amami region of
Kagoshima prefecture have become a storm area. At Kumejima Airport before 10am,
a maximum instantaneous wind speed of 55 meters was observed, and in addition,
maximum instantaneous wind speeds of 50.4 meters in Naha at 9am and 42.5 meters
around 10:30am in Nago City were also observed.
Intermittently, rain is also becoming strong, and at
Kumejima Airport until 10am, an extremely violent rain will fall at 55.5
milliliters per hour.
The typhoon is continuing its course getting closer to the
Okinawa main island, and is expected to advance northeast to the Amami region
of Kagoshima prefecture by evening.
For Okinawa and Amami,
a violent wind will blow on the 29th, the maximum wind speed is 45
meters, the maximum instantaneous wind speed is 60 meters, and there is a
forecast that the sea will become violent with waves 12 meters tall.
Additionally, along
with thunder, an extremely violent rain of more than 50 milliliters per hour
will fall, and there is the fear that locally, violent rain of more than 80
milliliters per hour will fall.
Even in the southern
region of Kyushu, along with thunder, there is the fear of extremely violent
rain, and the amount of rain that will fall by the morning of the 30th
is expected to be great in both the Okinawa and Amami regions (300 milliliters)
as well as the southern region of Kyushu (230 milliliters).
Now, in order for the
tide level to hit the time of the high spring tide, there is a high danger that
the Okinawa main island will flood through the evening through the high tide.