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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for LUA-12 in Australia from 13/03/2012 06:00 UTC to 17/03/2012 12:00 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 LUA-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 12.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 175 km/h)
  • from 13/03/2012 06:00 UTC to 17/03/2012 12:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0
  • Vulnerability: Low

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  0.9m in Derby, Australia. This height is estimated for 17 Mar 2012 02:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: sh1712 (jtwcId) SH172012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 11 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Tropical cyclone Lua struck Australia at about 06:00 GMT on 17 March.
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:40:00 +0100   alertnet (en)

17 Mar 2012 07:45 Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk Tropical cyclone Lua struck Australia at about 06:00 GMT on 17 March.Data supplied by theUS Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of landfallwasnear19.7 S,120.0 E.Lua brought 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of around166 km/h (103 mph).

People and organisations: College London  Met Office  University College  Air Force 

Tropical cyclone Lua struck Australia at about 06:00 GMT on 17 March.
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:58:00 +0100   trust (en)

17 Mar 2012 07:45 Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk Tropical cyclone Lua struck Australia at about 06:00 GMT on 17 March.Data supplied by theUS Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of landfallwasnear19.7 S,120.0 E.Lua brought 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of around166 km/h (103 mph).

People and organisations: College London  Met Office  University College  Air Force 

Alert as Australia braces for cyclone
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:49:00 +0100   news24 (en)

A tropical cyclone bearing down on Australia has intensified, placing the region on high alert as the storm threatened to bring destructive winds.

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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), WMO (1), OCHA (1), JTWC (3), BOM (1), Unisys (1), NASA (1), SWCB (1),

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