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Typhoon Noul hits southern China; 700,000 evacuate
July 26, 2026
Typhoon Noul made landfall in southern China, prompting the evacuation of more than 700,000 people and the cancellation of flights.
AP News reports that Typhoon Noul hit southern China as more than 700,000 people evacuated and flights were canceled. The corroborating headlines carry the same event: Reuters, under the title "Southern China faces torrential rain, flood risk after Typhoon Noul hits land", and Al Jazeera, under "Typhoon Noul makes landfall in China, with hundreds of thousands evacuated". The one detail corroborated across all five outlets, The Times of India, CBS News, Reuters and Al Jazeera alongside AP News, is modest: an AP photo caption from Xinhua showing fishing boats sheltering ahead of the storm at a port in Guangdong province.
The response measures run thinner. AP News reports that China's National Development and Reform Commission allocated 100 million yuan, about 14.8 million dollars, for recovery in Guangdong, and CBS News corroborates the figure. AP News alone reports that the Ministry of Water Resources upgraded its flood-control emergency response over high risks of mountain floods, citing Xinhua. AP News also carries the storm's wider footprint: at least three deaths in the Philippines as Noul moved across, according to the government's disaster-response agency, and separately at least 10 deaths and 23 injuries in a flash flood in Gansu province in northwestern China, per a Xinhua report.
The landfall itself is consistent across the AP News account and the Reuters and Al Jazeera headlines, and no outlet contradicts any part of the story. Beyond that, most of the detail, the evacuation total, the emergency-response upgrade and the tolls in the Philippines and Gansu, rests on AP News alone.
Still developing
The evacuation total, the death tolls in the Philippines and in Gansu province, and the Ministry of Water Resources emergency-response upgrade rest on AP News citing official and Xinhua accounts and await confirmation from other outlets. The flood risk Reuters flags for southern China after landfall is still unfolding.
How settled the reporting is
Sources
- AP News — Typhoon Noul weakens after making landfall, brings heavy rain to southern China
- The Times of India — Baby crib sent flying, 800,000 flee: Typhoon Noul hits China; scary visuals emerge
- CBS News — Typhoon Noul hits southern China as more than 700,000 evacuate, flights canceled
- Reuters — Southern China faces torrential rain, flood risk after Typhoon Noul hits land
- Al Jazeera — Typhoon Noul makes landfall in China, with hundreds of thousands evacuated