Nghe An issues urgent dispatch to respond to storm No. 10, floods, landslides, flash floods, and landslides

The dispatch was issued to seriously implement the direction in Dispatch No. 174/CD-TTg dated September 27, 2025 of the Prime Minister on focusing on responding to storm No. 10 and floods, landslides, flash floods, and landslides.

According to the forecast of Nghe An Province Hydrometeorological Station, Storm No. 10 has strengthened to level 12, gusting to level 15, and is moving very quickly towards the mainland of the North Central provinces and will become stronger the closer it gets to the shore. The storm may reach level 13, gusting to level 16 in the coming hours.

• On the sea of ​​Nghe An:From early morning on September 28, the wind in Nghe An sea area was level 8-9, near the storm center level 10-13, gusting to level 16, waves from 5.0-7.0m high, rough seas, threatening the safety of ships and activities at sea, islands, and coastal areas.
• Coastal Flood Risk:The storm is forecast to make landfall during high tide, which combined with storm surge and large waves could cause flooding.sea ​​dike overflow, breach, landslide, flooding low-lying coastal residential areas.
• Floods and landslides:From September 28 to September 30, Nghe An province will have heavy to very heavy rain and thunderstorms. Rainfall in the coastal plains and midlands is generally 150-300mm, in some places over 450mm; in mountainous areas it is generally 150-250mm, in some places over 350mm. There is a very high risk of flash floods, landslides, inundation and traffic disruption in mountainous and low-lying areas.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha directed localities to fully prepare response scenarios for storm No. 10.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Head of the Provincial Civil Defense Command requested departments, branches, localities and units to continue to seriously and resolutely implement the direction in Official Dispatch No. 41/CD-UBND dated September 27, 2025 of the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, and at the same time focus on implementing the following contents:

For Secretaries and Chairmen of People's Committees of communes and wards (grassroots level)

• Emergency evacuation: Quickly deploy solutions to ensure safety for people, vehicles, and boats at anchorages and storm shelters. Organize inspection, evacuation, and immediate relocation of households in dangerous areas to safe places, paying special attention to areas with subsidence, areas at risk of flash floods, landslides, deep flooding, on boats, cages, and aquaculture huts.
• Ensure safety at evacuation sites: Proactively arrange guards and patrols to ensure security and order at evacuation sites, and do not allow people to return without ensuring safety.
• Logistics reserves: Proactively arrange forces, vehicles, reserve food, provisions and necessities in vulnerable areas at risk of isolation, be ready to support the people, not let people go hungry, thirsty, cold and deploy rescue work.
• Directly command: Direct and assign comrades in the Standing Committee, Standing Committee and leaders of the People's Committee, departments, offices and units to key areas to directly urge and command response work.

For provincial Departments, Boards, branches and unions

• Ensuring absolute safety: Heads of relevant agencies and units, according to their functions and tasks, proactively go to the localities to direct and urge the implementation of response measures to ensure safety for forces, vehicles, equipment, and facilities under their management.
• Ensuring important infrastructure: Pay special attention to ensuring safety for transportation activities at sea, on rivers, safety of dykes, irrigation dams, hydropower, electricity systems, telecommunications, educational and medical facilities, production, business and service facilities...
• Education: The Director of the Department of Education and Training closely monitors the developments of storms and floods and proactively directs students to stay home from school to ensure safety.

For the armed forces

• Ready for rescue: The Commander of the Provincial Military Command, the Director of the Provincial Police, and the Commander of the Provincial Border Guard Command proactively direct and prepare forces and means to support people in responding to storms, floods, and support localities in evacuating and relocating residents and conducting rescue operations when required.
• Ensuring security and order: The provincial police preside over and coordinate with relevant forces to ensure security and order; promptly detect and prevent acts of taking advantage of natural disasters to cause disturbances and violate the law.
• Traffic control: The provincial police proactively advise the provincial People's Committee to decide to control and limit traffic during storms causing strong winds and heavy rain to limit incidents and ensure people's safety.

Information and reporting work

• Media: Nghe An Newspaper, Radio, Television and other mass media agencies coordinate with relevant agencies to continue to do a good job of communication, increase the amount of news coverage so that people can have full information about storm and flood developments, instructions from the Central, local and relevant agencies, and proactively prevent, avoid and limit damage.
• On-duty and synthesis: The Provincial Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention and Control organizes on-duty shifts to closely monitor natural disaster situations, proactively directs, inspects, and urges the implementation of storm and flood response work according to its authority; promptly synthesizes damage, reports, and proposes the Provincial People's Committee to direct and handle issues beyond its authority.

The Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province requested the Directors of Departments, Heads of provincial-level sectors, branches and organizations; Secretaries and Chairmen of People's Committees of communes and wards and Heads of relevant agencies and units to seriously implement this Official Dispatch.