Reply #12: Typhoon Nabi poised to hit Japan's main island (Cat 4)

[Whoa_Nelly]

Typhoon Nabi poised to hit Japan's main islan
05 Sep 2005 06:05:22 GMT

Source: Reuters

In TOKYO story headlined "UPDATE 1-Typhoon Nabi poised to hit Japan's main islands" please read in third paragraph....Category 4 storm....instead of....Category 2 storm (correcting category).

A corrected story follows.

(Updates with typhoon position, details)

TOKYO, Sept 5 (Reuters) - A powerful typhoon bore down on southwestern Japan on Monday, threatening the nation's heavily populated main islands with torrential rain and strong winds and disrupting transport and oil refineries.

Weather officials in South Korea also warned of flooding, while eastern China braced for possible effects from Typhoon Nabi after the region's previous storm killed at least 84 people in the east of the country, newspapers said.

Nabi was 100 km (62 miles) east of the tiny southern Japanese island of Amami Oshima at 12 a.m. (0300 GMT), the Meteorological Agency said. Winds were gusting up to 160 km an hour (100 mph) at the centre of the Category 4 storm.

The typhoon, whose name means "butterfly" in Korean, was travelling north-northwest at a speed of 15 km an hour (10 mph), heading directly for the densely populated southern island of Kyushu.

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