High waves and storm surges caused by typhoon (or storm) are the disaster events for the serious erosion in coasts, to which scientists have paid close attentionts -z However, there have been little report on the response processes of the beach morphologies in different sections of the arc-shaped coast to such calamities. A sequence of beach changes that were measured in the field during the Typhoon 8616 at the arc-shaped coast of the Shuidong in Guangdong Province, South China is analyzed in this note.