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Orange Tropical Cyclone alert for NILAM-12 in India, Sri Lanka from 30/10/2012 12:00 UTC to 31/10/2012 12:00 UTC
Summary
Tropical Cyclone impact
Media analysis
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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)

Tropical Cyclone NILAM-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 9.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 101 km/h)
  • from 30/10/2012 12:00 UTC to 31/10/2012 12:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0
  • Vulnerability: High

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 tropical cyclone did not reach sufficient strength to cause significant storm surge.

References

Known identifiers for this event: TC-2012-000185-IND (glide) TC-2012-000185-LKA (glide) io0212 (jtwcId) IO022012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 399 | About casualties: 53 | Last hour: 0

No more tanker water supply, orders DC
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:16:00 +0100   deccanherald (en)

A total of 677.5 mm rain this year, with 86.5 mm in October, is a good sign for the district, for both water supply and agricultural work, said Deputy Commissioner D S Vishwanath. "Sowing has been completed on 1.2 acres of land in the district and the produce on 87,000 acres is good.

People and organisations: Mahatma Gandhi  Municipal Council 

Cyclone Nilam makes Nepali sky overcast
Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:38:00 +0100   thehimalayantimes (en)

KATHMANDU: People across the country today woke up to feel the sudden chill with overcast morning. Weathermen attributed the sudden dip in temperatures to the clouds that were spread towards Nepali sky by a tropical storm that slammed into southern India yesterday.

People and organisations:

Cyclone weakens after displacing 150,000 in India
Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:21:00 +0100   msnbc (en)

Tropical Storm Nilam slams into southern India, bringing heavy rain and a storm surge and displacing 150,000 people. At least six deaths have been reported in India and Sri Lanka.

People and organisations: Meteorological Department  New York Times  New York Times  New York Times 

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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 (4), SWCB (1),

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