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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for HAIKUI-12 in China, Japan from 03/08/2012 06:00 UTC to 08/08/2012 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 HAIKUI-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 22.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 120 km/h)
  • from 03/08/2012 06:00 UTC to 08/08/2012 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  2.0m in Dinggang, China. This height is estimated for 08 Aug 2012 04:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: TC-2012-000134-CHN (glide) wp1212 (jtwcId) WP122012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 316 | About casualties: 22 | Last hour: 0

China responds to typhoon Haikui
Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:06:00 +0200   upi (en)

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Chinese officials said they were sending emergency crews into the field Saturday after the third typhoon in a week rolled ashore.

People and organisations: Xinhua News Agency 

Haikui causes over 3 billion yuan economic loss in Anhui
Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:38:00 +0200   xinhuanet_en (en)

HEFEI, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- East China's Anhui Province has recorded an economic loss of 3.28 billion yuan (515.69 million U.S.dollars) since severe tropical storm Haikui entered the province on Wednesday night, local authorities said Saturday. Haikui has brought about gales and heavy rains to the....

People and organisations: Xinhua News Agency  Anhui Province 

Emergency plan launched for typhoon-hit Jiangxi
Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:46:00 +0200   chinadaily (en)

China's central authorities initiated a level-four emergency plan at 4 pm Saturday in response to torrential rains and flooding caused by typhoon Haikui in east China's Jiangxi province.

People and organisations: Emergency 

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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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