Overall Orange Flood alert for Kenya in Kenya from 18 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC to 29 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC

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Overall Orange alert Flood for Kenya

in Kenya

Flood impact summary

Flood Kenya is expected to have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID:	1100433
Deaths:	257
Displaced:	84100
Region:	Mandera, Turkana, Nyeri, Kiambu County, Murang`a, Laikipia, Kirinyaga County, Kenya, Turkana County, Mandera County
Countries:	Kenya
From - To	18 Apr - 29 Apr
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 29-04-2020

SENDAI Indicator A	N	Country	Location
death	4	Kenya	Elgeyo Marakwet, West Pokot
death	16	Kenya	Kiambu County, Nyeri, Laikipia, Murang`a, Kirinyaga County
death	237	Kenya	Kenya
missing	24	Kenya	West Pokot, Elgeyo Marakwet, Kipchumwa

SENDAI Indicator B	N	Country	Location
affected	50	Kenya	Garissa County
affected	5000	Kenya	Tana River
affected	800000	Kenya	Kenya
displaced	2000	Kenya	Turkana County
displaced	30000	Kenya	Mandera County
displaced	4000	Kenya	West Pokot, Elgeyo Marakwet
displaced	37500	Kenya	Mandera
displaced	600	Kenya	Nyeri
displaced	2000	Kenya	Kiambu County
displaced	3500	Kenya	Murang`a
displaced	2500	Kenya	Laikipia
displaced	2000	Kenya	Kirinyaga County

SENDAI Indicator D	N	Country	Location	Info
water supply	-	Kenya	Mandera

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS

Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2020-04-11 / 2020-05-06

Timeline of revisions

For accessing reports of previous advisories, please click on the advisory number in the table below.

ID	Population affected	Start Date	End Date	Source
1	4 deaths and 4000 displaced	18 Apr 2020	18 Apr 2020	GLOFAS
2	0 deaths	24 Apr 2020	24 Apr 2020	GLOFAS
3	253 deaths and 80100 displaced	29 Apr 2020	29 Apr 2020	GLOFAS

Flood polygons

This polygon (translucent blue with a blue border) is drawn by the analysts recording the flood event. It is meant to include all the areas reported as affected, by official source or the media. It does not represent the area actually under water.

Microwave flood detection

Flooded area, as detected in microwaves by the Global Flood Detection System of the JRC, based on NASA TRMM/GPM observations. This system has a rather low resolution (of 5-10km) but is not affected by clouds.
For more details, see http://www.unisdr.org/files/9622_LBNA23303ENC002.pdf.
The areas with a flood signal along the coast are an artefact of the system and should not be considered.

Optical Flood detection

Flooded area as detected in optical wavelengths by NASA/MODIS, known as "MODIS Flood Product". Data are made available by NASA GSFC Flood Mapping Project, http://oas.gsfc.nasa.gov/floodmap/index.html. Resolution of 250m, heavily affected by cloud cover.

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