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FRIDAY, SEPTELER 6,

ON LAND, SIX HUTS IN O PUI LUNG VILLAGE, SHAU KEI WAN, FECTED BY A MUDSLIP EARLIER IN THE MORNING, BUT NO ONE WAS INJURED AND IT WAS NOT NECESSARY TO EVACUATE THE 19 RESIDENT

AND MINOR FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN CHUK YUEN, YUEN LONG, AND +PAK WAI+ VILLAGE IN KAM TÍN.

DURING THE STORM, 60 TYPHOON SHELTERS WERE OPENED IN DISTRICTS BY STAFF OF THE CITY AND NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTR AND 15 PEOPLE MOVED INTO THEM.

KAI TAK AIRPORT REMAINED OPEN THROUGHOUT, ALTHOUGH THERE FIVE CANCELLATIONS OF FLIGHTS, AND 13 DELAYED" ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.

A MAN AND A WOMAN WERE SLIGHTLY INJURED AS A RESULT OF : STORM. THEY WERE BOTH DISCHARGED AFTER TREATMENT.

THE STANDBY SIGNAL NO. 1 HAD BEEN HOISTED AT 9 AM ON REDNESDAY, WHEN TESS WAS WITHIN 400 MILES OF HONG KONG, HAV⠀ CROSSED LÚZON OVERNIGHT.

AT 9.10 PM THE SAME DAY, THE STRONG WIND SIGNAL NO. 3 W♬ HOISTED, INDICATING WIND SPEEDS OF 22 TO 33 KNOTS WERE EXPECT SEVERE TROPICAL STORM TESS WAS THEN CENTRED ABOUT 220 NAUTICA' MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF HONG KONG AND FORECAST TO MOVE WEST

THWEST AT 12 KNOTS TOWARDS THE SOUTH CHINA COAST.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR THE CENTRE OF TESS WERE THE: ABOUT 50 KNOTS. THE CENTRE OF TESS WAS NEAR 19.2 DEGREES NORT: 116.2 DEGREES EAST AT THE TIME.

TESS INTENS IF IED INTO A TYPHOON WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS OF ABOUT 65 KNOTS NEAR THE CENTRE, AT 10 AM ON THURSDAY.

THE NO. 8 SIGNAL WAS HOISTED AT 1.10 AM TODAY (FRIDAY)

AND INDICATING WINDS OF 34 KNOTS OR MORE FROM THE SOUTHEAST, LOWERED AT 6.10 AM.

TESS BROUGHT WITH IT ABOUT 100 MM OF RAIN SINCE THE HOISTING OF THE NO. 1 SIGNAL ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

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