Typhoon Soudelor wallops Taiwan with 40 inches of rain [View all]

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and 145 mph gusts.

•Typhoon Soudelor made landfall in northeast Taiwan at 5:00 a.m. Saturday local time (5:00 p.m. EDT Friday) about 19 miles northwest of Hualien with winds equivalent to Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
•Soudelor was moving to the west-northwest at 15 mph as of Friday afternoon (U.S. time) with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph.
•Winds have gusted over 100 mph in Taiwan and more than 40 inches of rain has fallen in at least one location.
•Tropical-storm force winds have also arrived in China as of early Saturday morning.
•Soudelor impacted Japan's far southwest Ryukyu Islands, where sustained winds of 101 mph with a gust to 145 mph has been confirmed in at least one location.
•A weakened, but still dangerous Soudelor will make a final landfall in southeast China late Saturday and track inland Sunday.
•Earlier this week, Soudelor underwent rapid intensification Monday and became Super Typhoon Soudelor, the strongest tropical cyclone on Earth so far in 2015.

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