- Title: Japan's weather authority issues highest level of alert for rainfall
- Date: 12th October 2019
- Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (OCTOBER 12, 2019) (REUTERS) TREES SWAYING IN HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS/ SHINAGAWA TRAIN STATION MAN WALKING WITH OUTSTRETCHED ARMS PEOPLE WITH UMBRELLAS WALKING ACROSS ROAD/ MAN FILMING PEOPLE WITH MOBILE PHONE MAN HOLDING CLOSED UMBRELLA AND RUNNING ACROSS ROAD FIRE TRUCKS WITH SIRENS DRIVING BY TRAFFIC CONE BLOWING IN WIND MEN IN UNIFORM PUTTING ON HELMETS MEN WEARING HELMETS RUNNING ACROSS ROAD IN WIND AND RAIN MAN STRUGGLING TO CARRY A PIECE OF SIGNAGE BLOWING IN THE WIND WORKER MOVING PLANTS/ PEOPLE WALKING IN RAIN NEAR SHOPPING CENTRE
- Embargoed: 26th October 2019 16:43
- Keywords: Typhoon Hagibis heavy rain wind Tokyo Japan Meteorological Agency
- Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
- City: TOKYO, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Wind/Hurricane/Typhoons/Tornadoes
- Reuters ID: LVA001B0SKP53
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Two men were killed, about 60 people injured and more than six million people advised to evacuate as a powerful typhoon bore down on the Japanese capital on Saturday (October 12), bringing with it the heaviest rain and winds in 60 years.
Typhoon Hagibis, which means "speed" in the Philippine language Tagalog, made landfall on Japan's main island of Honshu on Saturday evening, bursting some river banks and threatening to flood low-lying Tokyo as it coincides with high tide.
The storm, which the government warned could be the strongest to hit Tokyo since 1958, brought record-breaking rainfall in many areas, including the popular hot spring resort town of Hakone, with a whopping 939.5 mm (37 inches) of rain over 24 hours.
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued the highest alert level for 12 prefectures, including Tokyo, warning of amounts of rain that occur only once in decades.
The weather authority said it was likely damage from floods and landslides had already been taking place, and urged people to take life-saving precautions.
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