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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for LANE-12 from 15/09/2012 21:00 UTC to 19/09/2012 15:00 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 LANE-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 17.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 130 km/h)
  • from 15/09/2012 21:00 UTC to 19/09/2012 15:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0

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

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References

Known identifiers for this event: ep1212 (jtwcId) EP122012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

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

No storm surge in God's presence
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:48:00 +0200   csmonitor (en)

What if we could talk with Christ Jesus about how to respond to an oncoming hurricane threatening shorelines and low-lying areas of a coastal city? Would he warn us or assure us? Undoubtedly, he would assure us. Hymn 37 from the “Christian Science Hymnal” aptly describes what his assurance to us might convey.

People and organisations: Samuel Johnson 

Hurricane Lane starting to lose steam
Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:17:00 +0200   upi (en)

MIAMI, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Hurricane Lane, moving well off Mexico's western coast, should lose its punch and become a remnant low in a few days, U.S. forecasters said Tuesday.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Hurricane Center  Hurricane Lane 

Tropical Storm Moves in Atlantic Toward Azores Islands
Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:31:00 +0200   bloomberg (en)

Tropical Storm Nadine is moving northeast in the Atlantic on a path that may threaten the Azores Islands with damaging wind and rain, the National Hurricane Center. The 14th named storm of the Atlantic season that runs through November was 450 miles (720 kilometers) west-southwest of the Azores,....

People and organisations: Hurricane Center  Hurricane Lane  National Hurricane Center 

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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), OCHA (1), JTWC (3), BOM (1), Unisys (1), NASA (1),

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