Since 1 o’clock of June 12, the strongest rainfall in this flood season began to hit Lingui County of Guangxi Province. After only 19 hours, all the automatic weather stations reported that the precipitation there had already over the amount of heavy rainstorm.

    24 hours before the rainfall, according to the judgment of the situation at that time, Lingui Weather Station immediately sent special weather report to the local government. The meteorological forecast was also sent to all the village cadres, and more than 60,000 mobile phone users received warning information by short message. (June 13)

By Wu Zhao

Editor Kong Yan