At 1pm, its eye was located at around 10.5 degrees north latitude and 119.0 degrees east longitude at 530 kilometers of the east- southeastward of the Southwest Cay Island (the Spratly Islands) with its maximum wind near the center of up to 60- 75 kilometers an hour.
Kai- tak is predicted to move the west- southwestward at a speed of 15 kilometers an hour.
By this evening, the tropical storm will be centered at around 200 kilometers of the south- southeastward of the Southwest Cay Island.
Tomorrow, Kai-tak is forecast to be located at the Spratly Islands with its strongest wind of level 8-11, causing big waves of 5-7 meters and sea rough.
Amid to the complicated weather condition, the Standing Office of the National Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control had a meeting to deal with the 15th storm as well as ask the coastal localities from Da Nang to Kien Giang provinces to keep in touch with fishing boats in sea.