An unfortunate and deadly incident took place when a tornado struck a city in northeastern China, killing six people and 190 injured on Wednesday, as per to the police.
This monstrous tornado was formed around at 5 pm in Jingouzi township in Kaiyuan, Liaoning province which then further reacted to the speed of nearby 23 meters per second before fading after roughly 15 minutes, according to the reports of state news agency Xinhua.
In just 15 minutes of this Tornado, it destroyed around 250 acres of crops as well as damaging more than 4,300 homes, shattering windows and bringing down walls.
AccuWeather Meteorologist Jim Andrews stated in his statement that “It [Kaiyuan] is the flat area at the latitude of Tornado Alley of the United States,”
Despite the fact that tornadoes in this area aren’t rare, Andrews said they aren’t common either one.
He added, “Northeast China can and does get occasional major tornadoes, although my understanding is that it falls far short of the twister density of the U.S. tornado belt.”
There were around a total of 210 people by Thursday who had been saved as well as about 1,600 were evacuated, The Beijing News said. There were also around a total of 10,000 people who were also “displaced”.
According to a Beijing News video posted online, the tornado ripped through the township leading several damages such as thrashing homes, uprooting trees, flipping over cars and shedding factories of cladding in the city’s economic development zone.
The Beijing Times website cited a resident as saying that she saw buildings shattered by the tornado and at least one car tossed into the air.
Red Star News refers to a high school student who stated, “Power went off in surrounding areas as the tornado went by. About two or three minutes later there was thunder and then it hailed,”
An emergency alert was issued by Kaiyuan and have sent around a total of 800 police officers, fire fighters as well as medical personnel to the affected area.
Tornadoes are basically very rare in China, mainly in the country’s north, that it does not have a precise alarm for it, as per to a website backed by the China Meteorological Administration.
Beijing Times cited Yu Shuxin, who is the director of Kaiyuan’s emergency management bureau, as stating, “There are 63 people in the hospital now with 15 in critical condition,”
He further added, “Communication systems have recovered in most areas. Electricity infrastructure was severely damaged but we’ll try our best to get the power supply back up.”
Also as per to the as per to CNN meteorologists, even though China receives around 10 to 100 tornadoes a year, severe tornadoes in the country are a rarity. In the year 2017, a tornado hit Yunnan Province in southwestern China and that was the first time a tornado there had occurred in more than 30 years.
One of the deadliest tornadoes in recent Chinese history was hit in the year 2016 and there was a total number of 99 people who died and more than 800 others who got injured in a tornado in Funing county, Jiangsu province.
In the meantime, the local authorities have also set up a total number of four temporary shelters for those who got affected by this horrific tornado.
