On the 21st, the reporter learned from the Propaganda Department of Henan provincial Party committee that there was a rare continuous heavy rain in Zhengzhou recently, which caused heavy rain and torrential rain in the whole city and caused floods. Up to now, 12 people have died in Zhengzhou City, and about 100000 people have been transferred to avoid danger.

It is understood that from 18:00 on July 18 to 0:00 on July 21, there were torrential rain and torrential rain in Zhengzhou, with the accumulated average precipitation of 449 mm. The accumulated precipitation of 73 stations (accounting for about 38%) exceeded 500 mm, and the largest was 875 mm in Baizhai, Xinmi. The daily precipitation of Zhengzhou, Dengfeng, Xinmi, Xingyang and Gongyi exceeded the extreme value since the meteorological records, From 16:00 to 17:00 on the 20th, the rainfall of Zhengzhou station reached 201.9 mm, exceeding the extreme value of land hourly rainfall in China.

Due to the rare continuous heavy rainfall, many projects in Zhengzhou, such as Changzhuang reservoir, guojiazui reservoir and Jialu River, are in danger, and serious waterlogging occurs in the urban area of Zhengzhou, which seriously affects the railway, highway and civil aviation transportation of Zhengzhou. Zhengzhou metro line network station suspended operation service. More than 160 trains in Zhengzhou east railway station were shut down, resulting in a large number of passengers stranded.

Affected by the heavy rainfall, the water level of many rivers in Zhengzhou city continued to rise and appeared dangerous situation, many reservoirs exceeded the flood limit water level, and the urban area and surrounding counties were seriously affected. Since 16:30 on July 20, Zhengzhou flood control and Drought Relief Headquarters has upgraded the flood control level II emergency response to level I.

With the approval of the central war zone, 730 PLA officers and soldiers, 1159 armed police officers and soldiers, more than 60 vehicles, 6760 fire rescue team officers and soldiers, 1383 vehicles, 690 militia, 35 assault boats and 25784 sets of other rescue equipment have been deployed to participate in the rescue. At present, the rescue work is still in progress.

In addition to Zhengzhou, other areas of Henan also suffered heavy rain. From the evening of July 19 to 20, there was a torrential rain in Lushan County, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province. According to the rain report of Lushan County Meteorological Bureau, all towns and townships in the county experienced heavy rain to extraordinarily heavy rain. The top three towns and townships in the province were all in Lushan County, and the precipitation in four Keshu Township reached 401mm, breaking through the historical extreme value.

According to the data of Henan provincial emergency management department, from July 16 to July 20, more than 280000 people in 140 villages and towns in 31 counties and districts under the jurisdiction of Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Pingdingshan, Anyang, Hebi, Jiaozuo, Sanmenxia, Nanyang, Xinyang, Zhoukou, Zhumadian and Jiyuan demonstration area were affected by heavy rainfall, and 14680 people were transferred for emergency rescue; The affected area of crops is 20000 hectares, and the affected area is 3000 hectares.

According to the statistics of Water Resources Department of Henan Province, affected by the continuous heavy rainfall, there are 32 large and medium-sized reservoirs in Henan province that have exceeded the flood limit water level, and some river sections have been in danger, resulting in serious regional flood disasters. Large scale urban waterlogging and farmland waterlogging occurred in some areas of central and Western Henan and Northern Henan. The flood control and Drought Relief Headquarters of Henan Province decided to upgrade the emergency response level of flood control from level II to level I at 3 am on July 21.

Zhang Ning, chief forecaster of Henan Meteorological Observatory, summed up five characteristics of this heavy rainfall: long duration, large accumulated rainfall, wide range of heavy rainfall, concentrated period of heavy rainfall and extreme. Since July 17, there have been four days of heavy rainfall in the western and central and western regions of Henan Province, and the heavy rainfall will continue. There are 4098 rainfall stations in the whole province, with precipitation exceeding 50 mm, 1923 stations exceeding 100 mm and 606 stations exceeding 250 mm.

At present, the cities affected by the heavy rainfall in Henan Province are making every effort to organize the rescue work. In Lushan County of Pingdingshan City, in order to cope with the heavy rainfall, the county organized a flood control team of 22000 people, and the member units of the headquarters set up a flood control and emergency team of 1000 people, with a reserve of more than 220000 woven bags, 10 tons of lead wire, 4 assault boats, and more than 1200 life jackets. At present, Lushan County has launched flood control IV level emergency response, and organized party members and cadres to spare no effort in rescue and disaster relief.

Zhang Ning said that the heavy rainfall is expected to last until the night of the 21st, and the concentrated area of heavy rainfall is still northwest and central Henan, with precipitation of 100 to 250 mm and 300 to 400 mm in some parts. 22 to 26, Henan Province, no obvious large-scale heavy rainfall weather, the province's scattered thunderstorm weather.