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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for SAOLA-12 in China from 28/07/2012 06:00 UTC to 03/08/2012 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 SAOLA-12 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the Maximum sustained wind speed and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Updated: this report is based on advisory number 25.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 167 km/h)
  • from 28/07/2012 06:00 UTC to 03/08/2012 00:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 8.8million
  • 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  0.8m in Chia-li-wan, Taiwan. This height is estimated for 01 Aug 2012 19:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: wp1012 (jtwcId) WP102012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 396 | About casualties: 67 | Last hour: 0

Death toll from Philippine floods rises to 51
Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:56:00 +0200   news_com_au (en)

THE death toll from over a week of floods in the Philippines rose to 51 as rain continued to pour, causing dams to overflow and forcing more people to flee their homes, officials said Monday.

People and organisations: National Disaster Risk Reduction  Benito Ramos 

China Braces for Record Third Typhoon after 2 Storms
Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:46:00 +0200   almanar-en (en)

China braced on Monday for a record third typhoon in a week after two powerful storms smashed into its eastern coast over the weekend leaving at least 14 people dead and large areas under water

People and organisations: Water Resources  Chen Lei 

Death toll from Philippine floods rises to 51
Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:33:00 +0200   thetimes-za (en)

The death toll from over a week of floods in the Philippines rose to 51 as rain continued to pour, causing dams to overflow and forcing more people to flee their homes, officials said Monday.

People and organisations: National Disaster Risk Reduction  Benito Ramos 

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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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