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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for TWENTYONE-12 from 29/06/2012 12:00 UTC to 30/06/2012 00:00 UTC
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)

Tropical Cyclone TWENTYONE-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 2.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 64 km/h)
  • from 29/06/2012 12:00 UTC to 30/06/2012 00:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0

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 tropical cyclone did not reach sufficient strength to cause significant storm surge.

References

Known identifiers for this event: sh2112 (jtwcId) SH212012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 2 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Tropical storm Twentyone struck Papua New Guinea at about 18:00 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 Twentyone struck Papua New Guinea at about 18:00 GMT on 29 June.Data supplied by theUS Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of landfallwasnear11.6 S,154.8 E.

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Tropical storm Twentyone struck Papua New Guinea at about 18:00 GMT on 29 June.
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:41:00 +0200   alertnet (en)

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:18 GMT Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk Tropical storm Twentyone struck Papua New Guinea at about 18:00 GMT on 29 June.Data supplied by theUS Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of landfallwasnear11.6 S,154.8 E.

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

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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),

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