The Guangdong Meteorological Bureau confirmed that the tornado appeared in Conghua, Guangzhou

On the evening of June 16th, according to netizens, tornado appeared from Taiping Town, Taiping District around 19:30. The reporter learned from the Guangdong Provincial Meteorological Bureau that it confirmed that there was a tornado in Guangzhou Conghua today.

The official Weibo of the Guangzhou City Early Warning Information Release Center also said that after the staff of the Meteorological Bureau of Conghua District confirmed, the tornado appeared at about 19:25 Taiping Town, Conghua District, and the scale was small. The closest (about 700 meters) Taiping No. 2 Middle School Meteorological Station is recorded (about 700 meters). Feedback by witnesses at the scene, the history of life is about 3 minutes.

Conghua District Emergency Management Bureau:

No person to receive personnel casualties yet

Since the reporter learned from the Emergency Administration of the Hua District, the three defense headquarters of the Conghua District has contacted power supply, subway, meteorological, emergency, and territorial government to deal with the site for disposal. The specific disaster situation is under investigation and verification. No personnel reports have been received yet.

At the disaster site in Taiping Town, some areas have occurred, temporary scaffolds collapsed, and green trees damage to block traffic. It mainly involves the Taiping Development Zone, Taiping Village, and Taiping Town along Jiangxi Road. No casualties were found.

The reporter learned from the Taiping Town of Hua District that Taiping Town is currently organizing the power of power supply, public security, fire protection, emergency, and territorial villages for power repair, road clearance, and traffic guidance.

Guangzhou Power Supply Bureau:

Affects more than 5,400 users to power supply

The reporter learned from the Guangzhou Power Supply Bureau that the heavy rain and tornado caused the power supply lines of the Conghua Taiping area to be damaged. As of 21:30, more than 5400 users were affected by the normal electricity consumption. Essence

The Conghua Power Supply Bureau launched a first -level emergency response, and has sent a power outage information to the affected users and the village committee through the customer manager and reminding the village committee. It will make full organizational forces to carry out fault inspections and repair and re -power.

The power supply department reminded that the affected citizens are concerned about weather changes and personal safety. During the rainstorm, they will reduce going out during the rainstorm to avoid electric equipment such as transformers, electric poles, street lights, neon lights, billboards and other electricity. The property rights unit of social electricity equipment do a good job of investigating the safety hazards of relevant electricity usage facilities to prevent leakage from water immersion, humidity, and disconnection.

Earlier reports:

There was a strong rainfall in Conghua this night. At 18:40 on June 16th, Conghua Meteorological Observatory issued a yellow warning signal of heavy rain in the Conghua District. The Pu heavy rain yellow warning signal was upgraded to orange, and the heavy rain orange warning signal was extended to the entire district at 20:25. At 20:50, Conghua District Meteorological Station upgraded the orange warning signal of Aoou and Liangkou to red to red.

According to reports, the tornado will occur all year round, but spring and summer are the multiple seasons of the Guangdong tornado. Tornado often forms early stages of rapid development of thunderstorms. In terms of weather, the tornado is a strong whirlwind from a small and medium -sized range that extends from the stream of rainy clouds to the ground. When the tornado appears, there are often one or several funnel -shaped cloud columns that are like "nose", and they are stretched down from the bottom of the clouds, accompanied by storms, lightning, or hail. Passing the tornado, the phenomenon of unplugging trees, overturning vehicles, and destroying buildings often occur. Sometimes it takes away people and the harm is very serious.

Text/Guangzhou Daily · Xinhuacheng Reporter: Yakas, Li Tianyan, Zeng Weikang, He Diaoying Picture/Guangzhou Daily · Xinhuacheng Reporter: Zeng Weikang Correspondent: Taipingxuan, Congguangzhou Daily · Xinhuacheng Editor: Lin Chuanling

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