Typhoon Nabi

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Posting Date: September 6, 2005, 1:30:00 PM

Typhoon Nabi, the fourteenth tropical cyclone to form in the northwest Pacific this year, powered ashore Tuesday in Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, bringing strong winds across a 200 mile wide swath of land. The storm’s 100 mph winds brought heavy rains, pounding waves reportedly up to 28 feet high, and storm surge that flooded coastal towns along Kyushu’s southern coasts. More than 100,000 people were ordered to evacuate their homes and move into shelters in advance of Nabi’s arrival. However, 21 people are reported to have been killed. Several homes were buried by landslides in Kyushu’s Kagoshima prefecture, and thousands of homes were flooded in and around Tokyo, where at least 20,000 homes lost power. Nearly 900 flights were cancelled because of Nabi, some highways were closed and train service was cancelled in the southern part of the island. Japanese oil refineries were forced to suspend waterborne operations. Now over the Sea of Japan, Nabi is expected to increase its forward speed and turn to the east, running up along the west coast of Japan. However, due to its position over cooler water and interaction with land, Nabi is expected to continue to weaken. Using the latest available information about the meteorological parameters of this storm, the AIR tropical cyclone team has run simulations representing a variety of assumptions about the storm’s actual intensity and radius of maximum winds at landfall. Five of these are now posted on the Scenarios page of this website, where clients can view wind speed and loss maps. Events sets are available for download from the Events Sets page. Note that all losses are denoted in Japanese yen (JPY).

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Posting Date: September 6, 2005, 1:30:00 PM