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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1994

TWENTY-ONE CASES OF FLOODING WERE REPORTED AND FIVE PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN THE RAINSTORM.

STORM AFTER CROSSING THE LUZON STRAIT, TROPICAL THE SOUTH CHINA SEA ON SEPTEMBER 11.

LUKE ENTERED

AS IT MOVED CLOSER TO HONG KONG THAT NIGHT, STRENGTHEN FROM THE EAST.

WINDS

BEGAN ΤΟ

STRONG

WINDS

AND SQUALLY SHOWERS AFFECTED SEPTEMBER 12. OVER 50 MILLIMETRES OF RAINFALL WERE RECORDED KONG ISLAND,

THE

TERRITORY

ON

ON HONG

MEANWHILE, A CONTINENTAL NORTHEAST MONSOON ARRIVED AT THE SOUTH CHINA COAST AND RAIN BASED OFF ON SEPTEMBER 13. WINDS REMAINED STRONG OFFSHORE THAT DAY.

AND WINDY

THE SPELL LASTED

WEATHER

UNTIL

IT WAS

CLOUDY ON SEPTEMBER 14 BUT IMPROVED ON SEPTEMBER 15 AND A MAINLY FINE SEPTEMBER 22.

TEMPERATURES

UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A COOL NORTHEAST MONSOON, DROPPED TO THE MONTH'S LOWEST OF 23.1 DEGREES EARLY ON SEPTEMBER 18.

WEATHER DISTURBED

RETURNED AGAIN ON SEPTEMBER THUNDERY SHOWERS OCCURRED IN THE EARLY MORNING AND ALSO NIGHT.

23. HEAVY LATER THAT

DAILY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF OVER 100 MILLIMETRES WERE REPORTED IN TSUEN WAN AND SHA TIN,

WATERS

BAY

OTHERS

TRANSPORT A

CRASHED INTO THE PLANE

OF KOWLOON TYPHOON SHELTER IN THE EVENING. SIX PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND SIN WERE INJURED IN THE INCIDENT.

THE

WEATHER STAYED

CLOUDY ON SEPTEMBER 24 BUT IT' BECAME GENERALLY FINE ON SEPTEMBER 25 AND 26.

IT

THE

TURNED CLOUDY AGAIN WITH SOME RAIN ON SEPTEMBER 27 AND

WITH THE ARRIVAL OF A DRY CONTINENTAL AIRSTREAM FROM THE NORTH, THE MONTH. WEATHER BECAME SUNNY AND DRY IN THE LAST TWO DAYS OF

28.

THERE WERE

ALTOGETHER 12 TROPICAL CYCLONES OVER NORTH PACIFIC AND THE SOUTH CHINA SEA IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER.

THE WESTERN

DETAILS OF THE ISSUANCE/HOISTING AND CANCELLATION/LOWERING

TABLE VARIOUS

IN THE MONTH ARE SUMMARISED IN WARNINGS/SIGNALS MONTHLY METEOROLOGICAL FIGURES AND DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL OF SEPTEMBER ARE TABULATED IN TABLE 1.2.

OF

1.1.

/TABLE 1.1