Typhoon Ewiniar (2006)
Typhoon Ewiniar was the third named storm of the Pacific typhoon season 2006. During its route northward, he influenced Palau, Yap, East China, belonging to Japan Ryukyu Islands and North and South Korea. He took care of heavy rains in the affected regions.
Storm History
On June 29, a tropical disturbance east of Palau by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center was reported. The system migrated northwestward and was already classified as a tropical storm the next day, the Japan Meteorological Agency gave it the name Ewiniar. This name referred to the storm god of the population of the Chuuk Islands of Micronesia. Over the next two days Ewiniar moved north- northwestward and brought heavy rains and storm surges on the Yap Islands.
Then the storm wandered northwestward and reached its maximum intensity with winds of 240 km / h and a minimum pressure of 930 hPa Ewiniar moved further north and met East China. As the typhoon on 10 July South Korea reached, he had already weakened over cold water and hit the country as a Tropical Storm. He missed the capital Seoul to 50 km and weakened over the Sea of Japan further.
Effects
Yap and Palau
Ewiniar caused to Yap a storm surge with a height of 1.5 m and a property damage in the amount of $ 100,000. The maximum wind speeds were at 98 km / h on Yap and 85 km / h in Koror, Palau.
China
The typhoon killed at least 34 people in China, especially by landslides in Gansu and Shanxi. It is still unclear whether the landslides were actually caused by Ewiniar or a combination of different weather circumstances led. Thus, 34 killed in Chinese can only be classified as indirect victims. 300 flights starting in Beijing had to be canceled, Air China and China Eastern Airlines stopped all flights from China to South Korea.
Japan
Ewiniar - Title in Japan: Typhoon No. 3 ( the year Heisei 18) - Okinawa met with heavy rains, flights and ferries to the neighboring islands were stopped. About 3,500 tourists had to stay at the airports. In Nanjo seven people were injured by a falling sign in Nago was a young girl, an elderly woman injured in Yaese by strong winds. The highest wind speeds reached Ewiniar in Japan at 126 km / h Overall, the material damage amounted to 20 million yen.
South Korea
South Korea was the hardest hit of all states. 150 square kilometers of farmland were flooded, at least six people died, three were reported missing. Almost all flights were canceled, floods damaged 600 houses according to official figures.
North Korea
Due to the political situation in North Korea, there is little information on the effects of the typhoon in that State. However, the Asian Times reported about 60,000 homeless by the storm.