Overall Green Flood alert for Uganda in Uganda from 18 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC to 23 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Flood for Uganda

in Uganda

Flood impact summary

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

GDACS ID:	1100585
Deaths:	1
Displaced:	9000
Region:	Buliisa
Countries:	Uganda
From - To	18 Aug - 23 Aug
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 23-08-2020

SENDAI Indicator A	N	Country	Location	Info
death	1	Uganda	Bundibugyo Town Council, Bundibugyo District

SENDAI Indicator B	N	Country	Location
affected	1	Uganda	Kasese, Kasese District
affected	3500	Uganda	Bundibugyo Town Council, Bundibugyo District
displaced	9000	Uganda	Buliisa

SENDAI Indicator C	N	Country	Location	Info
houses	800	Uganda	Bundibugyo Town Council, Bundibugyo District

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS

Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2020-08-11 / 2020-08-30

Timeline of revisions

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

ID	Alert Color	Population affected	Start Date	End Date	Source
1		1 deaths	18 Aug 2020	20 Aug 2020	GLOFAS
2		0 deaths and 9000 displaced	23 Aug 2020	23 Aug 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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