User:SteveAustin1973/Hong Kong Rainstorm Disasters

Hong Kong rainstorm disasters mostly occur during the summer season. Hong Kong has a typical marine subtropical monsoon climate with seasonal showers and thunderstorms. Occasionally, tropical cyclones may cause heavy rains and strong winds, resulting in many rainstorm disasters, flash floods and landslide accidents.

Highest Fatalities in Rainstorm Disasters
The following is a list of disasters with the highest recorded fatalities caused by floods, rainstorms, flash floods and landslides since the establishment of Hong Kong Observatory in 1883.


 * 1962 Typhoon Wanda (434 people dead, 72,000 homeless)
 * 1972 Hong Kong Landslides (156 people dead, 117 injured)
 * 1925 Po Hing Fong landslide (72 people dead, 20 injured)
 * 1966 Hong Kong rainstorm (64 people dead, 29 injured, 48 missing)
 * 1959 Hong Kong rainstorm (46 people dead, 60 injured, 21 missing )
 * 1982 Hong Kong rainstorm (29 people dead, 50 injured)
 * 1955 Tai Po Kau flash flood (28 people dead)
 * 1889 (Hong Kong rainstorm (27 people dead, 6 injured, 17 missing )
 * 1957 Hong Kong rainstorm (25 people dead)
 * 1968 Kong Kong rainstorm (22 people dead, 26 injured)

One-hour rainfall record
Top 5 records based on rainfalls recorded at the Hong Kong Observatory headquarter are as follows:


 * 1) June 7, 2008 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., 145.5mm (Hong Kong rainstorm in June 2008)
 * 2) Jul 16, 2006 2 a.m. to 3 a.m., 115.1mm
 * 3) May 8, 1992 6 a.m. to 7 a.m., 109.9mm
 * 4) June 12, 1966 6 a.m. to 7 a.m., 108.2 mm
 * 5) May 2, 1989 noon to 1 p.m., 104.8mm