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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for IRINA-12 in Juan De Nova I.,Mozambique,Swaziland,South Africa,Madagascar from 29/02/2012 00:00 UTC to 10/03/2012 00:00 UTC
Summary
Tropical Cyclone impact
Storm surge
Extreme rain
Media analysis
Data Resources
GDACS Event Report - Summary

Summary

Interactive map: Open The map shows the accumulated precipitation along the cyclone's track. Yellow area is > 100mm; Red area is > 300mm; Blue area is > 500mm. The accumulated rainfall is calculated based on the Tropical Rainfall Potential of NOAA/NESDIS. The eTRaP is a simple ensemble whose members are the 6-hourly totals from the single-orbit TRaPs, which are rainfall estimates from passive microwave remote sensing. Rain map with eTraP data. (Source: JRC) Storm surge maximum height. (Source: JRC)

Tropical Cyclone IRINA-12 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the Maximum sustained wind speed and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Updated: this report is based on advisory number 21.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 111 km/h)
  • from 29/02/2012 00:00 UTC to 10/03/2012 00:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0
  • Vulnerability: High

Extreme Rain

Potential rainfall is calculated based on rainfall observed by several microwave satellite sensors.

The image shows the total rainfall accumulation associated with the cyclone.

Storm surge

The maximum Storm surge height is  0.8m in Manampea, Madagascar. This height is estimated for 01 Mar 2012 03:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: sh1412 (jtwcId) SH142012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 129 | About casualties: 37 | Last hour: 0

Conseil de Gouvernement – Mardi 13 Mars 2012- Insécurité de la communauté Française – Augmentation des tarifs de la JIRAMA
Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:09:00 +0100   newsmada (fr)

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People and organisations: Met Office  Jean-Marc Châtaigner  Éducation nationale  World Meteorological Organization  Finance Ministry 

Centre Valbio : collecte de fonds pour Madagascar
Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:05:00 +0100   newsmada (fr)

Après le passage d’Irina et de Giovanna, le Centre Valbio fait des collectes de fonds pour Madagascar. Le Centre Valbio travaille avec Madagascar National Parks (MNP) et le bureau du maire pour aider en cas de catastrophes naturelles. Le Centre collabore avec la Conservation Dumond pour obtenir des fonds de secours d’urgence à l’Espace Ranomafana.

People and organisations: National Parks 

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Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:40:00 +0100   themirror (en)

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People and organisations: Jessica Ennis  Blue Jays  Blue Jays  Mona Barthel  Indian Wells  Rebecca Adlington  Andrew Bynum  British Gas  Victoria Azarenka  Magdalena Neuner  Boston Celtics 

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EMM (1), JRC (33), TRMM (1), NOAA (4), (2), OCHA (1), JTWC (3), BOM (1), Unisys (1), NASA (1), SWCB (1),

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