Heavy Rain Emergency Warning Issued for Southwestern Japan City

   Tokyo, Aug. 8 (Jiji Press)--The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for Kirishima, a city in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima on Friday morning, calling for the highest level of caution against landslides and river flooding.
   Separately, the highest-level warning on the country's five-tier disaster alert system was issued for Kirishima and some other parts of Kagoshima.
   A linear precipitation zone, or a band of cumulonimbus clouds that causes massive rainfall, occurred intermittently in the prefecture.
   In Mizobe, Kirishima, heavy rain of 107.5 millimeters was recorded in an hour until 3 a.m., where rainfall over 12 hours until 4:50 a.m. reached 483 millimeters, a record for the area.
   Makinohara, also in Kirishima, had record rainfall of 495 millimeters over 12 hours until 6:10 a.m.

(2025/08/08-08:47)

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