SHANGHAI, Aug. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Shanghai lifted its typhoon warning early Sunday as Matsa trailed off into a tropical storm and moved northwest out of Shanghai in the wee hours.

    Shanghai meteorological reported early Sunday that Typhoon Matsa, the name of a fish in Laos, trailed off into a tropical storm at 2:00 a.m. and its center moved into the neighboring Anhui Province.

    The station lifted typhoon warning at 4:00 a.m.

    Typhoon Matsa brought six hours of heavy rains and high winds to most parts of the city. Putuo district in the city center alonereceived 215 millimeters of rainfall, the biggest volume among allurban districts.

    The torrential rain has flooded 84 urban streets as the city's drainage capacity is only 27 to 36 millimeters per hour. In some areas, rain water has even flooded houses and ground floor apartments. Local fire brigade sent 200 fire engines overnight to help residents drain water out of their homes.

    Water level in the swelling Huangpu River also exceeded the warning line. At 3:35 a.m. Sunday, the water level at Mishidu, a major monitoring site, was a record 4.38 meters, 0.88 meter above alarm.

    Suburban areas worst ravaged by the typhoon, including Jinshan,Fengxian and Nanhui districts, reported power failures.

    Sources with the municipal government said that the typhoon hasalready affected the vegetable and fruit supplies on the urban market since the typhoon and heavy rain has damaged a large acreage of farmland in the rural areas.

    The typhoon has caused on death and evacuated more than 1.2 million residents since it pounded eastern China, causing floodingand disrupting road and air transport.

    On Friday night, one worker at a construction site in Shanghai died and two others were injured when a shed tumbled in rainstormsthat heralded Matsa's coming.

    The ninth typhoon of this year made landfall at Ganjiang town in Zhejiang Province at 3:40 a.m. Saturday, and moved northwest toward six major cities, including the provincial capital Hangzhou.

    It lashed nearby Shanghai and forced all flights to be canceled. Shanghai rang emergency alarm Saturday afternoon when center of the typhoon was merely 200 kilometers away.

    The neighboring provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu have tightened safety inspection along dykes of local rivers and called back fishing vessels so as to minimize damages to be inflicted by the typhoon. Enditem