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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for NADINE-12 in Portugal from 12/09/2012 03:00 UTC to 04/10/2012 09:00 UTC
Summary
Tropical Cyclone impact
Storm surge
Extreme rain
Media analysis
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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 NADINE-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 87.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 148 km/h)
  • from 12/09/2012 03:00 UTC to 04/10/2012 09:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0
  • 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  0.2m in Candelaria, Portugal. This height is estimated for 04 Oct 2012 09:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: al1412 (jtwcId) AL142012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 117 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Hurricane Nadine struck the Azores as a tropical storm at about 07:00 GMT on 4 October.
Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:34:00 +0200   trust (en)

Fri, 5 Oct 2012 20:56 GMT Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk Tropical storm Gaemi is forecast to strike Vietnam at about 20:00 GMT on 6 October.Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of landfall will be near14.9 N,109.5 E.

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Hurricane Nadine is forecast to strike the Azores as a tropical storm at about 13:00 GMT on 4 October.
Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:34:00 +0200   trust (en)

Fri, 5 Oct 2012 20:56 GMT Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk Super typhoon Jelawat is forecast to strike Japan as a typhoon at about 04:00 GMT on 30 September.Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of landfall will be near32.8 N,135.

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Hurricane Nadine is forecast to strike the Azores as a tropical storm at about 01:00 GMT on 4 October.
Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:34:00 +0200   trust (en)

Fri, 5 Oct 2012 20:56 GMT Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk Hurricane Nadine is forecast to strike the Azores as a tropical storm at about 13:00 GMT on 4 October.Data supplied by the US National Hurricane Centersuggest that the point of landfall will be near38.8 N,31.6 W.

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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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