The typhoon left two people dead and more than 70 injured, while more than 200,000 households lost power.
Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-08
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The eye of Typhoon Nepartak headed out into the Taiwan Strait near
Freight train blown off the rails in Taitung.
Tainan around 2:30 p.m. Friday, the Central Weather Bureau said, warning residents against complacency.
The storm, which was downgraded from the status of a super typhoon earlier in the day, made landfall near Taimali in Taitung County at 5:50 a.m. before making its way across Southern Taiwan at a relatively slow pace.
By 2:30 p.m., the weather bureau located the center of the typhoon at 20 kilometers north-northwest of Tainan and moving northwest at a speed of 12 kilometers per hour in the general direction of Penghu.
Sustained winds of 155 kph with gusts of up to 191 kph were still raging around the storm, the bureau said. [FULL STORY]