The Ministry of Water Resources and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued a red meteorological warning for flash floods at 6 p.m. on August 6:
It is expected that from 20 o'clock on August 6 to 20 o'clock on August 7, there is a high possibility of flash floods in some areas of western Shanxi, northern Shaanxi, and eastern Gansu (orange warning), among them, there is a high possibility of flash floods in northern Shaanxi and eastern Gansu (red warning), and the counties (cities, districts) involved in the warning area are shown in the following table. Other areas may also be caused by local short-term heavy precipitation caused by flash floods, please pay attention to real-time monitoring, flood prevention and early warning, transfer and avoidance and other prevention work.