1993 Kagoshima Heavy Rain

1993 Kagoshima Heavy Rain means a series of heavy torrential rains which hit Kagoshima, Japan with debris flow in the early part of August, 1993. The formal name in Japanese was 平成5年8月豪雨, or August 1993 Heavy Rain. The death toll was 71, but about 2,500 people who were either in 1200 cars or busses, including those on the trains and inhabitants were saved by fishing boats and ferrys which carried them to Kagoshima through the Sakurajima Bay.

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General descriptions

1993 Kagoshima Heavy Rain includes torrential rains which fell between July 31 and August 6 in Kagoshima Prefecture according to the Japan Meteological Agency. The former heavy rain fell in the Aira district on August 1 and the latter on August 6 in the center of Kagoshima Prefecture.

Weather in 1993

Weather in Kyushu

Damage

Shirasu-Daichi

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