Violent 134mph Winds Wreaks Havoc In China As Gusts Blow Away COACHES

Hail, heavy rain and strong gusts as high as 134mph battered a city in south [/news/china/index.html China] last night.
Meteorological authorities in Guilin, Guangxi Autonomous Region issued severe thunderstorm and hailstorm warnings at about 9pm local time, advising residents to take precautionary measures and stay indoors.
Shocking footage filmed by local residents show strong gales uprooting trees, blowing away buses and shattering windows.

No injuries have been reported.
Shocking footage filmed by local residents in Guilin, Guangxi show strong gales uprooting trees, blowing away buses and shattering windows.

No injuries have been reported
Glass and window panes are left scattered across footpaths and roads after the freak storm
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Gales of up to 60 metres per second (134 miles per hour) were recorded at about 9pm last night, according to the Guangxi Meteorological Bureau in a statement on Weibo today.  
The extreme weather in Guilin, which usually enjoys a mild climate, prompted the meteorological authority to raise a red gale alert after the gusts reached the highest level on the wind force scale at level 17.   
The red alert is the highest level on a four-tier warning system in China, followed by orange, yellow and blue. 
Blankets, tour du lịch quế lâm mattresses, clothing and stationary were seen left strewn about in a student dormitory (left) while hailstones (right) gushed in from broken windows 
'Strong convective weather in Guangxi will remain,' the meteorological authority said.

'Residents should stay updated on the latest forecast and kynghidongduong.vn weather warnings and stay indoors'
Other clips filmed by residents show curtains being blown away from their flats and balcony items flying about in the heavy downpour
The authority also noted that the rare phenomenon was the strongest winds ever recorded in Guangxi's meteorological history. 

Most of last night's photos and videos were shot by university students, who went on Chinese social media to describe the damage they were witnessing from their dormitories.  
Blankets, mattresses, clothing and stationary were seen left strewn about and scattered on the floor while rainwater gushed in from windowsills. 
Other clips filmed by residents show curtains being blown away from their flats and balcony items flying about in the heavy downpour.  
Social media photos show people holding sizable hailstones in their palms
The extreme weather in Guilin (pictured), which usually enjoys a mild climate, prompted the meteorological authority to raise a red gale alert after the gusts reached the highest level
Aftermath photos show uprooted trees, tour du lịch quế lâm broken glass and window panes lying across roads and footpaths.

Others show people holding sizable hailstones in their palms.  
'Strong convective weather in Guangxi will remain for the next few days,' the meteorological authority said. 
'Residents should stay updated on the latest forecast and weather warnings and stay indoors.' 
'Precautionary and strengthening measures should be taken on structures in order to prevent damage from lightning, hail and strong gusts - especially on work sheds, temporary structures, advertising billboards and trees,' it added. 
Hailstones said to be as big as eggs and table tennis balls rained down on the county of Jinping in China on Tuesday.

Social media pictures show sizable balls of ice gathered by the locals
Residents woke up to find their cars destroyed, roofs smashed, crops damaged and streets covered by massive lumps of ice after the freak storm hit the border county at around 6:40am
The chaotic weather came just days after neighbouring province Yunnan was hit with a freak hailstorm.
Residents in Jinping woke up on Tuesday to find their cars, windows and roofs damaged by massive lumps of ice as big as the size of eggs. 
The biggest stones had a diameter of more than five centimetres (1.96 inches), according to local reports.

Most of them measured 0.5 to five centimetres (0.19 to 1.96 inches) wide.
The storm began at around 6:40am local time and was accompanied by high winds gusting up to 70 kilometres per hour (43.6 miles per hour), said the Yunnan Meteorological Bureau which added that such storm 'was rarely seen in many years'.