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[STORMREPORTS] Typhoon Rusa Hits Japanese Islands

From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 17:32:11 EDT


Japan Radar: http://www.wni.co.jp/cww/docs/radame/radame_soth.html

WeatherMatrix Western Pacific Tropical Center
http://www.weathermatrix.net/tropical/2002/wpac/

WeatherMatrix World Radar Data
http://www.weathermatrix.net/radar/data/world/

Associated Press Quotes:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020829/ap_on_re_as/japan_typhoon_1

"TOKYO (AP) - Typhoon Rusa hit a chain of small islands in southwestern
Japan on Thursday, flattening homes and causing blackouts and evacuations.
Rusa packed sustained winds of 78 mph and was located just southeast of
Naze Thursday evening, the Meteorological Agency said.

The storm had already flattened six homes and caused 38 people to be
evacuated from their houses in the Anami Islands by late Thursday. A power
outage had plunged 20,000 households into darkness, and most flights
Thursday afternoon and Friday morning were canceled, according to public TV
broadcaster NHK.

The Meteorological Agency forecast that Rusa — the Malaysian word for deer
— would bring up to 20 inches of rain to parts of Japan's southernmost main
island of Kyushu by Friday morning. It was expected to cross over to the
sea and then move northward to approach Korea."

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