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SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1983
FROM JUNE 5 TO 7, THE WEATHER WAS FINE. CLOUDY CONDITIONS RETURNED ON JUNE 8, WITH OCCASIONAL SHOWERS DURING THE NIGHT. THE WEATHER REMAINED SHOWERY ON JUNE 9 AND 10.
FINE WEATHER SET IN ON JUNE 11 AND CONTINUED UNTIL JUNE 14. THERE WERE A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS ON JUNE 15 AND THE WEATHER BECAME INCREASINGLY UNSETTLED WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS ON JUNE 16,
A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE MOVED SOUTHWARDS TO SOUTH CHINA ON JUNE 17, RESULTING IN FREQUENT HEAVY SHOWERS AND WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS IN HONG KONG.
THE DOWNPOUR WAS HEAVIEST DURING THE FIVE HOURS BETWEEN 5 AM AND 10 AM WHEN 274.4 MM OF RAIN WERE RECORDED AT THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY.
THIS FIVE-HOURLY RAINFALL WAS THE SECOND HIGHEST ON RECORD FOR JUNE AND THE FOURTH HIGHEST FOR ANY MONTH.
THE MAP SHOWING RAINFALL FOR 24 HOURS ENDING AT 3 PM ON JUNE 17 REVEALED THAT RAIN WAS HEAVIEST ON HONG KONG ISLAND WHERE AMOUNTS EXCEEDING 400 MM WERE RECORDED.
THERE WERE A TOTAL OF 393 REPORTS OF FLOODING AND 134 REPORTS OF LANDSLIPS. THE MAJORITY, 261 CASES OF FLOODING AND 92 LANDSLIPS, OCCURRED ON HONG KONG ISLAND.
DURING THE DELUGE A MAN WAS KILLED, 12 OTHERS INJURED AND MORE THAN 600 MADE HOMELESS. THE MAN WAS CARRIED AWAY BY FLOOD WATER AT SOUTH BAY CLOSE ON HONG KONG ISLAND AND WAS LATER FOUND DEAD,
THE MOST SERIOUS FLOODING OCCURRED IN THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN DISTRICTS OF HONG KONG ISLAND AND THE EASTERN PART OF KOWLOON WHERE FLOOD WATER OF OVER ONE METRE WAS REPORTED IN MANY PLACES, TWENTY-TWO HECTARES OF FARMLAND IN THE NEW TERRITORIES WERE INUNDATED.
THE MOST SERIOUS LANDSLIP OCCURRED IN THE MORNING AT PEAK ROAD NEAR ITS JUNCTION WITH MAGAZINE GAP ROAD AND COOMBE ROAD WHERE A SECTION OF THE ROAD SLID DOWN THE SLOPE, THE LANDSLIP CUT OFF WATER, ELECTRICITY AND GAS SUPPLY AS WELL AS TELEPHONE LINKS TO THE PEAK.
ANOTHER SERIOUS LANDSLIP OCCURRED IN THE EVENING AT TIN WAN HILL ROAD IN ABERDEEN WHERE ABOUT 50 TONNES OF MUD SLID DOWN THE HILLSIDE, BURYING SIX MOTOR VEHICLES, BUT NO ONE WAS HURT.
FOLLOWING THE DOWNPOUR, RESERVOIRS IN HONG KONG BECAME ABOUT 90 PER CENT FULL. EIGHT BUILDINGS WERE THREATENED BY LANDSLIPS ON HONG KONG ISLAND AND WERE CLOSED BY THE AUTHORITIES.
THERE WERE OCCASIONAL LIGHT SHOWERS ON JUNE 18 AS THE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE GRADUALLY MOVED NORTHWARDS AWAY FROM HONG KONG. DURING THE FOLLOWING TWO DAYS, THE WEATHER REMAINED. CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS. SUNNY PERIODS DEVELOPED ON JUNE 21 AND 22 BUT THERE WERE ALSO SOME ISOLATED SHOWERS.
FROM JUNE 23