Overview
- Kalmaegi, locally named Tino, was about 95 kilometers southeast of Guiuan with sustained winds near 140 kph and gusts up to 170 kph, with landfall expected Monday night or early Tuesday.
- Mandatory and pre-emptive evacuations include more than 70,000 people in Guiuan, Mercedes and Salcedo, operations in Palo and Tanauan, and 10,000–15,000 residents moved in the Dinagat Islands.
- PAGASA has raised tropical cyclone wind signals and issued gale warnings for eastern seaboards, cautioning of destructive winds, torrential rain and very rough to high seas.
- Inter-island ferries were suspended, stranding more than 3,500 passengers at nearly 100 ports, and some domestic flights were canceled as emergency units were placed on alert.
- Official forecasts track the storm west across the central Philippines into the South China Sea toward central Vietnam later in the week, where recent floods have killed at least 37 and winds could approach 166 kph.