Pattaya experienced severe flash floods after an hour of heavy rain around 4.26am, reported Nation TV. The rainfall caused surface runoff over 90 centimetres deep, inundating major roads including Khao Talo-Wat Tham Samakee Road, Pattaya Tai-Pattaya Klang Road, Chaloem Phrakiat Road, and Pattaya Beach Road.

Special affairs staff were deployed to help manage traffic, advising motorists to avoid driving small cars and motorcycles on the flooded streets.

A resident, Supachai Saeliaw, 21, recounted how his car was swept into a watercourse; he and his girlfriend had to escape through the car window and walk through more than waist-high floodwaters, fortunately sustaining no injuries.