Summary
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Rain map with eTraP data. (Source: JRC)
Storm surge maximum height. (Source: JRC)
Tropical Cyclone KAI-TAK-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 22.
- Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 130 km/h)
- from 13/08/2012 00:00 UTC to 17/08/2012 18:00 UTC
- Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 4.5million
- 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
2.8m
in Liangdong,
. This
height is estimated for 17 Aug 2012 04:00:00.
References
Known identifiers for this event: TC-2012-000142-CHN (glide) TC-2012-000142-VNM (glide) TC-2012-000142-PHL (glide) wp1412 (jtwcId) WP142012 (noaaId)
Latest media headlines
Articles: 207 |
About casualties: 49
| Last hour: 0
Typhoon Kai-Tak kills 3, displaces 100,000 in S China
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:51:00 +0200
china (en)
NANNING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Kai-Tak has left three people dead, one person missing and forced over 111,500 people to evacuate their homes in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region as of Monday afternoon, local civil affairs authorities said. As of 4 p.m.
People and organisations: Xinhua News Agency
China: Typhoon Kai-Tak kills 3, displaces 100,000 in S China
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:40:00 +0200
reliefWeb (en)
Source: Xinhua Country: China English.news.cn 2012-08-20 20:36:12 NANNING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Kai-Tak has left three people dead, one person missing and forced over 111,500 people to evacuate their homes in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region as of Monday afternoon, local civil affairs authorities said.
People and organisations: Xinhua News Agency
Chen Zhi
Free Qixi Festival events canceled
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 01:40:00 +0200
chinadaily (en)
The planned free Qixi Festival carnivals in Haixinsha Park have been canceled without any prior announcement, angering many Guangzhou residents and visitors.
People and organisations:
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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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