According to the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) on Friday, in the national rainfall ranking over the past 24 hours, Yixian county in Hebei, was ranked highest. From 6 am on Thursday to 6 am on Friday, the maximum rainfall in Yixian county reached 447.4 millimeters, and multiple stations reported rainfall exceeding historical extremes. The Yixian meteorological station issued a red alert for heavy rain at 6:11 am on Friday, according to the CMA.

The Hebei provincial meteorological authority upgraded its emergency response for heavy rain to Level III on Friday morning, and issued an orange alert for rain storm, requiring relevant departments to initiate and upgrade their emergency responses to heavy rain disasters in a timely manner, and to make every effort to implement the emergency plans for effective disaster prevention and response, according to the Hebei provincial government.

According to information posted on the official website of the Hebei provincial government, the province sees an average annual precipitation of 484.5 millimeters.

According to the Yixian county government, from 8 am on Thursday to 8 am on Friday, the average rainfall in the county was 253.6 millimeters, with the maximum precipitation reaching 448.7 millimeters in Renyizhuang village. The highest hourly rainfall intensity was 98.1 millimeters, also recorded in Renyizhuang village. As of 8 am on Friday, a total of 1,584 people had been relocated, with no casualties reported, according to the Yixian county government.

From Thursday, heavy rainfall struck areas including Baoding and Chengde in North China’s Hebei Province, as well as Yulin and Yan’an in Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, leading to flood disasters, according to a notice posted on the website of the Ministry of Emergency Management on Friday.

In response to the local disaster relief requirements, the office of the national commission for disaster prevention, reduction and relief, the Ministry of Emergency Management and the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, urgently allocated 23,000 items of emergency relief supplies, including folding beds, blankets, emergency lighting, and family emergency kits, to support the two provinces in the emergency relocation and resettlement of affected residents and disaster relief efforts,  the notice read.

The Hebei provincial meteorological disaster prevention and environmental meteorology center issued an urban rainstorm flooding risk warning at 5 pm on Friday.

It is expected that over the next three days, heavy rain will continue in most of the areas including parts of Hebei Province, with some regions experiencing torrential rain and isolated areas facing extreme rainfall, according to the National Meteorological Center (NMC) on Friday.

Fifteen rivers across Shanxi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hebei, Shaanxi, and Guangdong have experienced floods exceeding warning levels, according to CCTV News.