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Vietnam’s NCHMF: rivers above Alert 3 after up to 1,321 mm of rain
Vietnam’s national weather service raises flood disaster risk to Level 2–3 as rivers in Phú Thọ, Ninh Bình, and Thanh Hóa sit at or above Alert Level 3 — after a multi-day rain burst that put 1,321 mm on Bạch Mã.
Key facts
- Agency stamp (via Watchers)
- National Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting (NCHMF) raised flood-related natural-disaster risk to Level 2–3 at 15:30 LT 16 Sep 2026
- River peaks / Alert Level 3
- Bôi at Hưng Thi (Phú Thọ) 14.93 m (+1.93 m above Alert 3); Hoàng Long at Bến Đế (Ninh Bình) 4.01 m (+0.01 m); Thanh Hóa: Bưởi 16.95 m, Âm 51.79 m, Chu 31.20 m (all above Alert 3)
- Rainfall extremes (Viet Disaster & Dyke Authority via Watchers, 10–16 Sep)
- Quảng Trị / Huế generally 400–600 mm; Bạch Mã 1,321 mm (52 in); Tà Long 896 mm; La Tó 808 mm; Tà Lương 791 mm; Nhâm 774 mm
- Damage snapshot (through 07:00 LT 16 Sep)
- 940 homes flooded in Quảng Trị (receded by afternoon 14 Sep); 1 house collapsed + 13 damaged; 988 evacuated households returned; 1,068.85 ha crops damaged
- Directive
- National Civil Defense Steering Committee Directive No. 53/CĐ-BCĐ-BNNMT (16 Sep) to Phú Thọ, Ninh Bình, Thanh Hóa
- Soft-source flag
- Desk FACT follows NCHMF / Viet authority numbers as carried by Watchers; did not independently open NCHMF HTML/PDF mirrors at promote time
Fifty-two inches on one mountain gauge and Alert-3 rivers still high days later is not a single-storm postcard.
Desk reading of NCHMF figures via The Watchers, 16 Sep 2026
Note
NCHMF at 3:30 p.m. on September 16 pushed flood disaster risk to Level 2–3 with the Bôi, Hoàng Long, and several Thanh Hóa rivers at or above Alert 3. Upstream of that warning sits a rain ledger that looks broken: 1,321 mm at Bạch Mã in less than a week, hundreds of millimeters across Quảng Trị and Huế, nearly a thousand homes briefly underwater. The civil-defense directive tells provinces to pull people off the worst banks. Watchers carries the agency numbers; Desk reads them as the Viet dial, not a blog invention.
Attribution: The Watchers (Reet Kaur), 16 Sep 2026. Cited primaries: NCHMF flood + heavy-rain bulletins 16 Sep; Cục Quản lý đê điều và Phòng, chống thiên tai rapid disaster report 16 Sep. Soft-source rule applies.
Why it matters
Fifty-two inches on one mountain gauge and Alert-3 rivers still high days later is not a single-storm postcard — it is a national flood desk escalating risk while families return to houses that already flooded once this week.
Sources
Official data. Live values go to the HUD / source product.