Hong Kong, China (CNN) -- Typhoon Conson roared into China on Friday near the city of Sanya, along the southern tip of the island of Hainan, around 7:15 p.m. (7:15 a.m. ET).
The storm, which already killed at least 39 people during its westward march across the Philippines this week, was packing maximum sustained winds of 139 kph (86 mph), according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, making it the equivalent of a Category 1 hurricane.
Southern China already has been battling severe flooding that has killed 146 people over the past two weeks, destroyed about 113,000 homes and forced more than 1.2 million people to relocate this month, state media said Friday. Forty people were missing,
