Over a dozen tornadoes hit China’s Jiangsu and Shangdong
Typhoon “Bebinca” triggered over a dozen tornadoes across China’s Jiangsu and Shangdong provinces on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. Numerous tornadoes were observed in Sihong, Lanlin, Linyi, Xuzhou, and other parts of both provinces.
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Following landfall of Typhon “Bebinca” on Monday, September 16, a tornado outbreak occurred in China’s Jiangsu and Shangdong provinces, with more than a dozen tornadoes in northern Jiangsu alone on Tuesday.
Several videos shared online show tornadoes across several parts of both provinces. Xuzhou, in Jiangsu, reported several tornadic supercells on Tuesday afternoon, large wedge tornadoes were observed in Sihong and Lanlin in Jiangsu along with a wedge tornado observed in Linyi, Shandong.
Several cone tornadoes were observed in Jiangsu’s Sihong, Donghai, and Xuzhou regions.
Typhoon “Bebinca” made landfall in China’s Shanghai as the strongest storm since 1949 on Monday causing widespread damage and severe flooding across the region. It brought heavy rains and strong winds, that downed around 10 000 trees, caused over 300 power outages and 1 injury along with the evacuation of over 400 000 people before it even made landfall.
The typhoon then moved to southern Jiangsu on Monday afternoon, with gust speeds of 151 km/h (94 mph) making it the strongest typhoon to strike the region since meteorological records began. The typhoon had hardly weakened as it broke wind records in both Suzhou and Wuxi on Monday.
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