China News Service, Wuhan, May 15 (Wu Yili) A tornado broke out at 20:39 on the 14th in the Xishan area of Caidian District, Wuhan City and the Junshan area of Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, accompanied by strong convection such as thunderstorms, gales and hail. the weather.
The reporter learned from a press conference held by the Wuhan Municipal Government Information Office on the 15th that according to current statistics, a total of 8 people were unfortunately killed, 230 people were injured, 3568 people were affected, 1197 people were urgently transferred and resettled, and 28 households with 86 houses collapsed. 400 houses of 130 households were damaged.
According to Wang Li, director of the Wuhan Meteorological Bureau, on the 14th, most of Wuhan City experienced moderate to heavy rain, partial heavy rain or heavy rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, strong wind, hail, short-term strong convection and other weather.
At 20:39 that day, there was a gale of 23.9 meters per second (Pu's wind speed level is 9) at the nearest automatic weather station Xishan Station to the disaster.
The picture shows the collapsed tower crane on the construction site.
Zhang Changshe
According to the site survey by meteorological experts, it is preliminarily judged that this is a local severe convective weather, with extremely destructive tornadoes and downbursts. The main occurrence period is 20-21 o'clock, and the main location is the east of Caidian District, Wuhan City, the disaster center. There are strong winds above level 12 in the area.
Liu Ziqing, deputy mayor of the Wuhan Municipal Government, said that the severe convective weather caused damage to some local houses, collapsed work sheds, a large number of trees broken, severe damage to construction site facilities, and many casualties.
After the disaster, the city's emergency, public security, fire protection, urban management, transportation, construction, health and other departments urgently carried out on-site rescue work.
Up to now, all the missing persons have been found, and the search and rescue work has basically ended.
The picture shows the roof of a factory building at a construction site being overturned in a large area.
(Aerial photo) Photo by Zou Hao
In addition, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission organized the Municipal Emergency Center, the Municipal Blood Center and a number of hospitals to carry out emergency treatment work. A total of 18 ambulances were dispatched throughout the city. Wuhan Tongji and Union Hospitals dispatched 70 trauma experts and 200 nurses. The municipal hospital organized 40 medical personnel to support the rescue work.
As of 12:00 on the 15th, a total of 181 patients were treated in the hospital.
Liao Minghui, director of the Wuhan Emergency Management Bureau, said that next, the city's emergency department will make every effort to ensure the resettlement of the people affected by the disaster, pay close attention to repairing damaged water, electricity, gas, roads, houses and other facilities, and restore the people's production and life order as soon as possible. , To minimize the loss.
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