Impact
Even though at landfall, Kim was a weak tropical storm, its rapid development brought about, quite a bit of impact to Indochina countries, which were already suffering the effects of Tropical Storm Herbert, which had hit Indochina a few weeks previously. As a result Thailand in particular suffered flooding that lasted for four months after Kim passed over Bangkok and surrounding areas on October 18. As a direct result of Tropical Storm Kim, over 200 people were killed. Whilst damage sustained to property during the four months of flooding was rather unusually high with 300 boats and ships, 3,000 houses, and 19,750 acres (8,000 hectares) of rice were destroyed. over 200 thousand hectares of farmland was also destroyed in Thailand. Even though the damage was unusually high the name Kim was not retired and was reused in 1986 before the naming list was removed during 1989.
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