Deadliest Weather-Related Catastrophe You Probably Never Heard Of, a blog post on Cat 6 blog
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Chris in Tampa on 5/31/2018, 5:24 am
"In early August 1975, Typhoon Nina made landfall along the coast of China near Shanghai. The storm weakened as it moved inland and merged with a cold front that straddled Henan Province (in central China), resulting in the development of a series of near-stationary thunderstorms in and around the town of Linzhuang. The greatest short-term rainfall event in modern Chinese records ensued: some 1060 mm (41.73") of rain fell in just 24 hours. The Banqiao Dam on the Ru River near Linzhuang, failed as a result of the rains and collapsed on August 7-8, sending a wave some 6 miles wide and 10-23 feet deep across the plains below. As a result some 100,000-230,000 people perished. By some accounts, this makes Typhoon Nina the fourth-deadliest tropical storm in modern world history."
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/deadliest-weather-related-catastrophe-you-probably-never-heard
Blog post from Weather Historian Christopher C. Burt on Masters/Henson blog. |
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