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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for DOKSURI-12 in China from 26/06/2012 12:00 UTC to 30/06/2012 00:00 UTC
Summary
Tropical Cyclone impact
Storm surge
Extreme rain
Media analysis
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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 DOKSURI-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 15.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 93 km/h)
  • from 26/06/2012 12:00 UTC to 30/06/2012 00:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0
  • Vulnerability: Medium

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  1.1m in Macau, Macau (China). This height is estimated for 29 Jun 2012 18:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: wp0712 (jtwcId) WP072012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 34 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Tropical storm Doksuri struck China at about 16:00 GMT on 29 June.
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:51:00 +0200   trust (en)

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:18 GMT Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk Tropical storm Doksuri struck China at about 16:00 GMT on 29 June.Data supplied by theUS Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of landfallwasnear21.6 N,113.7 E.

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

Tropical storm Doksuri is forecast to strike China at about 12:00 GMT on 29 June.
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:51:00 +0200   trust (en)

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:18 GMT Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk Tropical storm Doksuri is forecast to strike China at about 12:00 GMT on 29 June.Data supplied by theUS Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of landfallwill benear22.0 N,116.1 E.

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

Tropical storm Doksuri is forecast to strike China at about 16:00 GMT on 29 June.
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:51:00 +0200   trust (en)

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:18 GMT Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk Tropical storm Doksuri is forecast to strike China at about 16:00 GMT on 29 June.Data supplied by theUS Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of landfallwill benear22.3 N,117.1 E.

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

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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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