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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for KRISTY-12 in Mexico from 12/09/2012 21:00 UTC to 17/09/2012 15:00 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 KRISTY-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 21.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 93 km/h)
  • from 12/09/2012 21:00 UTC to 17/09/2012 15:00 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  0.1m in San Felipe, Mexico. This height is estimated for 16 Sep 2012 05:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: ep1112 (jtwcId) EP112012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 21 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Nadine holds strength while Kristy weakens
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:07:00 +0200   upi (en)

MIAMI, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Nadine trolled the Atlantic Ocean while Tropical Depression Kristy was falling apart in the Pacific Monday, U.S. forecasters said.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Hurricane Center 

Tropical Storm Turns Away From U.S.; Kristy, Lane Far Off Mexico
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:15:00 +0200   bloomberg (en)

Tropical Storm Nadine, the 14th named system of the Atlantic hurricane season that runs through November, has turned east-northeastward and away from the U.S. and Caribbean. Nadine was 675 miles (1,085 kilometers) southwest of the Azores with winds of 70 miles per hour, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said in a 5 a.

People and organisations: Hurricane Center  National Hurricane Center 

Lane, Kristy still patrolling Pacific
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:06:00 +0200   upi (en)

MIAMI, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Lane was getting closer to hurricane strength out in the Pacific Ocean Sunday night, U.S. forecasters said.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Hurricane Center  Hurricane Lane 

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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), DesInventar (1), SWCB (1),

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