South Korea’s weather agency warned there could be casualties as the nation prepares for the most powerful storm in its history to make landfall early Tuesday
South Korea Warns of Casualties as Super Typhoon Hinnamnor ApproachesYin Liqin/China News Service via Getty Imagesouth Korea’s weather agency warned there could be casualties as the nation prepares for the most powerful storm in its history to make landfall early Tuesday.
“It’s a massive typhoon with a 400-kilometer radius, which is big enough to cover Seoul to Busan. Most regions in Korea will experience intense rain and wind,” he said. The typhoon is likely to impact Jeju at about 1 a.m. local time Tuesday, and southern coastal cities at about 7 a.m., according to the administration.
The storm, which is forecast to be even more destructive in South Korea than Typhoon Sarah in 1959, was heading north-northeast at about 17 kilometers per hour, some 300 kilometers south-southwest off the coast of Jeju as of noon Seoul time, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration. Hinnamnor is currently packing sustained winds of about 127 miles per hour with gusts as as much as 155 miles an hour, according to the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
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