Storm No. 10 - BUALOI
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Detailed information
I. Storm evolution
- On the night of September 23, the tropical depression in the sea east of the Philippines intensified into a storm and was given the international name BUALOI. At 7:00 a.m. on September 24, the center of storm BUALOI was at about 9.8 degrees North latitude; 132.4 degrees East longitude. The strongest wind near the center of the storm was level 9 (75-88 km/h), gusting to level 11. Moving in the West Northwest direction at a speed of about 15 km/h.
- At 5:00 p.m. on September 26, the center of the storm was at about 12.7 degrees North latitude; 120.2 degrees East longitude. The strongest wind near the center of the storm was level 11 (103-117 km/h), gusting to level 14. Moving in the West Northwest direction at a speed of about 35 km/h. It is forecasted that in the next 1-2 hours, storm BUALOI will move into the East Sea, becoming storm number 10.
- On the evening of September 26, storm BUALOI entered the eastern sea of the central East Sea and became storm number 10 in 2025. At 7:00 p.m., the center of the storm was at about 13.1 degrees North latitude; 119.7 degrees East longitude, about 900km southeast of Hoang Sa special zone. The strongest wind near the center of the storm was at level 11-12 (103-133km/h), gusting to level 15. Moving in the West Northwest direction at a speed of 30-35km/h.
- At 7:00 p.m. on September 27, the center of the storm was at about 15.6 degrees North latitude; 112.3 degrees East longitude, in the southern area of Hoang Sa special zone, about 460km east of Da Nang City. The strongest wind near the storm center is level 12 (118-133km/h), gusting to level 15. Moving in the West Northwest direction at a speed of 30-35km/h.
- At 10:00 on September 28, the storm center was located at about 17.0 degrees North latitude; 108.9 degrees East longitude, on the sea of Quang Tri-Da Nang City, about 140km East Northeast of Hue City, about 260km East Southeast of North Quang Tri. The strongest wind near the storm center is level 12 (118-133km/h), gusting to level 15. Moving in the West Northwest direction at a speed of about 25km/h.
- At 7:00 on September 28, the storm center was located at about 17.7 degrees North latitude; 107.2 degrees East longitude, on the coastal area of Nghe An-Quang Tri. The strongest wind near the storm center is level 12 (118-133km/h), gusting to level 15. Moving in the West Northwest direction, speed 20-25km/h.
- On the night of September 28, storm No. 10 entered the territory of Ha Tinh - Northern Quang Tri. At 01:00 on September 29, the storm center was located at about 18.2 degrees North latitude; 106.2 degrees East longitude, on the mainland along the coast of Ha Tinh province. The strongest wind near the storm center is level 11 (103-117km/h), gusting to level 14. Moving in the West Northwest direction, speed 20-25km/h.
- At 10:00 on September 29, the storm center was located at about 19.1 degrees North latitude; 104.5 degrees East longitude, on the mainland border area of Nghe An - Central Laos. The strongest wind near the center of the storm is level 8 (62-74km/h), gusting to level 10. Moving in the West Northwest direction, at a speed of about 20km/h.
- At noon on September 29, storm No. 10 moved to the Upper Laos region, weakened into a tropical depression and no longer had the ability to directly affect the mainland of our country. At 13:00, the center of the tropical depression was at about 19.5 degrees North latitude; 103.6 degrees East longitude. The strongest wind near the center of the tropical depression is level 6-7 (39-61km/h), gusting to level 9. Moving in the West Northwest direction at a speed of about 25km/h.
II. DIRECTION AND RESPONSE WORK
- On September 28, 2025, the Secretariat issued Official Dispatch No. 17940-CV/VPTW directing response to storm No. 10.
- The Prime Minister issued Official Dispatch No. 173/CD-TTg dated September 26, 2025 directing Secretaries and Chairmen of People's Committees of coastal provinces and cities from Quang Ninh to Khanh Hoa and Ministries to focus on responding to storm No. 10; Official Dispatch No. 174/CD-TTg dated September 27, 2025 directing Secretaries and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities in the Northern and North Central regions (from Da Nang and beyond) and Ministries to focus on responding to storm No. 10 and floods, landslides, flash floods; established a Forward Command Committee headed by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha to focus on handling, preventing, and overcoming the consequences of storms, floods, and landslides; Telegram No. 175/CD-TTg dated September 28, 2025 directs Secretaries and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities and ministries and branches to focus on responding to and overcoming the consequences of storm No. 10 and post-storm floods.
- On September 27 and 28, 2025, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha chaired 02 online meetings with provinces, cities and ministries and branches to direct the implementation of response to storm No. 10. Immediately after the meeting on September 28, the Deputy Prime Minister directly inspected the response work in Nghe An and Ha Tinh.
- On September 24, 26 and 28, the National Civil Defense Steering Committee issued 03 Telegrams directing response to storms, floods, flash floods and landslides.
- On September 27, 2025, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment issued 01 telegram and 02 documents directing response to storm No. 10; calling on ships to move to avoid the storm; directing the implementation of work to ensure the safety of the dyke system to respond to storm No. 10 and floods.
- On the afternoon of September 26, Deputy Minister Nguyen Hoang Hiep - Member of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee chaired a meeting with relevant agencies to deploy storm response work.
- The Ministry of National Defense issued a telegram directing military regions, military branches and on-duty forces to respond, prepare forces, means facilitate, organize a working group to go to the area to respond to the storm, in which 344,413 officers and soldiers and 8,166 vehicles were mobilized to respond to storm No. 10;
- The Ministries of Public Security, Construction, Industry and Trade, Health, Education and Training, and Science and Technology issued telegrams to deploy response to the storm.
- On September 25, 2025, the Consular Department (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) sent diplomatic notes to embassies of countries in the region requesting to create conditions for Vietnamese ships to take shelter and support rescue and repair ships if necessary.
- The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting issued a storm forecast bulletin from September 24, 2025 when the storm was near the East Sea; regularly update the storm's developments to serve the direction of response.
- The Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention and Control organized a serious 24/24 duty, closely monitored the developments of storms and floods; issued documents directing the safety of the dike system to respond to floods; coordinated with Zalo Vietnam to send text messages to 37 million subscribers to guide storm response skills, ensuring safety when there is heavy rain, floods, inundation, flash floods, and landslides.
- Informed, counted, and instructed 67,970 vehicles/286,677 workers to know the developments and directions of the storm to proactively avoid it.
- The Border Guard forces, local authorities, and related agencies organized rescue and relief for 09/11 crew members of 02 fishing boats (BV 4607TS and BV 0042TS) in distress in the Cua Viet area (Quang Tri).
- Provinces and cities from Ninh Binh to Quang Ngai have organized the evacuation of 18,926 households/51,888 people in dangerous areas (Ninh Binh 894 people; Thanh Hoa 4,443 households/17,873 people; Nghe An 4,359 households/10,729 people; Ha Tinh 8,908 households/18,394 people; Quang Tri 742 households/2,318 people; Hue 462 households/1,545 people; Da Nang: 81 people; Quang Ngai: 12 households/54 people).
- Central and local media agencies, Vietnam Television, Voice of Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency have increased the time and frequency of reporting on storm and flood developments, response instructions from competent authorities to the people and provided guidance on response skills.
- Localities have issued directives; organize on-duty, monitor forecast information, warnings and deploy storm response; on September 28, 08 provinces and cities from Ninh Binh to Quang Ngai organized working groups led by provincial leaders to go to the area to direct the implementation of storm and flood response.
- Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Tri provinces directed students at all levels to stay home from school on September 29.