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      A day after hitting Taiwan with powerful winds and heavy rains and causing at least 3 deaths, Typhoon Nepartak slammed into Fujian Province as a powerful tropical storm. Wunderground [wunderground.com]'s tracking map shows the route and intensity level of this storm as it moved to land-fall.

      The Bangkok Post [bangkokpost.com] reports:

China's official Xinhua news agency reports that Nepartak has inflicted huge damage after making landfall on Saturday afternoon in east China's Fujian Province.

      Calling the storm a "typhoon" , not a "tropical storm" , Xinhua says Nepartak made first landfall early on Friday in eastern Taiwan, packing winds of up to 190 km per hour, gusting up to 234 km per hour.

      According to Xinhua a red rainstorm alert was issued in Putian City, which experienced more than 250 millimeters of precipitation in four hours early this morning. Forty-three people in a residential area were rescued by firefighters after floodwaters submersed two buildings. Many buildings have collapsed and landslides were reported in rural and mountainous areas.

      An incomplete estimation showed more than 420,000 people in four cities, including the provincial capital of Fuzhou, have been urgently relocated, Xinhua says.

      On Saturday (July 9), WHNT (CNN) reported [whnt.com]:

Nepartak is Taiwan's largest super typhoon in about six years and the first for 2016 in the northern hemisphere, after an unusually quiet storm season.

Until now, the northwest Pacific had experienced its longest streak on record without a named storm, totaling 200 days since December 2015.

On social media, meteorologists and storm chasers have been sharing their awe over the shape and size of super typhoon Nepartak, describing it as a "near-perfect" storm.

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Nepartak is expected to bring further devastating rainfall to China, which is already reeling from its worst flooding since 1998 [...] An estimated 29 million people have already been affected by floods, hailstorms and landslides, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said, while China's Flood Control Department said the country was experiencing its worst flooding since 1998.

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