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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for VICENTE-12 in China from 21/07/2012 18:00 UTC to 24/07/2012 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) Storm surge maximum height. (Source: JRC)

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

Updated: this report is based on advisory number 14.

  • Tropical Cyclone Hurricane/Typhoon > 74 mph (maximum wind speed of 212 km/h)
  • from 21/07/2012 18:00 UTC to 24/07/2012 00:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 6.1million
  • 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  3.3m in San-tsao, China. This height is estimated for 23 Jul 2012 19:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: TC-2012-000122-CHN (glide) TC-2012-000147-LAO (glide) wp0912 (jtwcId) WP092012 (noaaId)

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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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