Guangdong: China's National Meteorological Center announced that Typhoon Tapah has made landfall in south China's Guangdong Province, prompting evacuations, school closures, and the suspension of train and ferry services.

According to Qatar News Agency, Tapah, the year's 16th typhoon, is expected to make landfall along the coast between the cities of Jiangmen and Maoming, unleashing torrential rain across the southern Pearl River Delta and western Guangdong through Tuesday, China's News Agency (Xinhua) reported.

The cities raised typhoon warnings and announced school closures. Railway authorities said all trains on the Shenzhen-Zhanjiang and Guangzhou-Maoming lines will be suspended.

China's national observatory on Sunday renewed a yellow alert -- the third-highest level in its four-tier weather warning system -- for Typhoon Tapah.

Meanwhile, China's Ministry of Water Resources also activated a Level-IV emergency flood control response in Guangdong and neighboring Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.