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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for SANDY-12 in Cuba, Jamaica, Bahamas, United States from 22/10/2012 21:00 UTC to 30/10/2012 03:00 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 SANDY-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 31.

  • Tropical Cyclone Hurricane/Typhoon > 74 mph (maximum wind speed of 167 km/h)
  • from 22/10/2012 21:00 UTC to 30/10/2012 03:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 19.8million
  • 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  4.5m in Higbeeville, United States. This height is estimated for 29 Oct 2012 23:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: TC-2012-000180-HTI (glide) TC-2012-000180-CUB (glide) TC-2012-000180-JAM (glide) al1812 (jtwcId) AL182012 (noaaId)

Links and resources

Latest media headlines

Articles: 10004 | About casualties: 487 | Last hour: 0

Inline Distributing Company Sends Disaster Response Units To Support Hurricane Sandy Clean Up Efforts
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:52:00 +0100   finanznachrichten-en (en)

SYLMAR, Calif., Nov. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Inline Distributing Company -- http://www.inlineco.com/-- deployed their recently unveiled 53 foot Disaster Response Units in response to the damage fr...

People and organisations:

For Hourly Workers After the Storm, No Work, No Pay
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:48:00 +0100   nytimes (en)

Hourly workers said that if they did not go to work after Hurricane Sandy, they probably would not be paid.

People and organisations: Andrew M Cuomo  York Department  Chapel Hill 

Springsteen, Bon Jovi sing for Sandy victims
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:48:00 +0100   abs-cbnnews (en)

NEW YORK New Jersey natives Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi joined Sting, Christina Aguilera and other music stars on Friday in a televised benefit concert to raise funds for victims of Sandy, the giant storm that [[killed]] more than 100 and devastated large sections of the U.S. Northeast.

People and organisations: Matt Lauer  Billy Joel  Mary J Blige  Danny Devito  Red Cross  Bon Jovi  Jon Stewart  Jon Bon Jovi  Christina Aguilera  Steven Tyler  Brian Williams  Bruce Springsteen  Whoopi Goldberg  Jimmy Fallon  Tina Fey  Jersey Shore 

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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 (35), TRMM (1), NOAA (4), (2), WMO (1), OCHA (1), JTWC (3), BOM (1), Unisys (1), NASA (1), SWCB (1), Haiti (1), FEMA (1),

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