July 19 –
Hail kills 25 and injures hundreds in the
Chinese province of
Henan.
August
August 22 – In China, the
Dongting Lake floods
Yueyang, forcing the evacuation of 600,000 people; the crest of the flooding from the
Yangtze River is expected Sunday. Floods and landslides have killed nearly 1000 people in China, 200 in the
Hunan province.