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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for SANBA-12 in Korea, Republic of, Japan from 11/09/2012 00:00 UTC to 17/09/2012 06:00 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 SANBA-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 27.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 278 km/h)
  • from 11/09/2012 00:00 UTC to 17/09/2012 06:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 12.3million
  • Vulnerability: Low

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  1.5m in Chindong, Republic of Korea. This height is estimated for 17 Sep 2012 03:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: TC-2012-000163-JPN (glide) wp1712 (jtwcId) WP172012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 177 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

Tourists stranded by China typhoon back home
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:33:00 +0200   ruvr-en (en)

Over 700 Russian tourists who were stranded by typhoon Sanba in China have safely returned to their homes.

People and organisations:

Typhoon Sanba washes away roads in Primorye
Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:13:00 +0200   ruvr-en (en)

Typhoon Sanba attacked Primorye on the night of September, 18 while incessant rains have flooded the South part of the region - Vladivostok, Nakhodka and Partizansk. Almost a month's worth of precipitation has been registered here during the last days.

People and organisations:

Aftermath of Typhoon Sanba in Vladivostok
Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:33:00 +0200   rian-en (en)

Tropical typhoon Sanba, the most powerful to hit the Primorye Territory for 20 years, began moving away from Vladivostok during the second half of the day on Tuesday and pushed toward the north of the territory.

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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