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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for BERYL-12 in United States from 26/05/2012 03:00 UTC to 30/05/2012 21:00 UTC
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Tropical Cyclone impact
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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)

Tropical Cyclone BERYL-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 20.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 111 km/h)
  • from 26/05/2012 03:00 UTC to 30/05/2012 21:00 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 tropical cyclone did not reach sufficient strength to cause significant storm surge.

References

Known identifiers for this event: al0212 (jtwcId) AL022012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 308 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Nasa to Send Unmanned ‘Severe Storm Sentinels’ Aircraft for Hurricane Study
Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:01:00 +0200   ibtimes-hken (en)

A number of Nasa centers, federal and university agencies are coming together to study hurricane formations and intensity changes in the Atlantic Ocean basin.

People and organisations: Goddard Space Flight Center  Space Flight Center  NASA 

As the Atlantic hurricane season begins the forecasters are all over the map
Sat, 02 Jun 2012 20:53:00 +0200   irishsun (en)

Tropical storm Beryl may have come ashore last week, but the official start to the Atlantic hurricane season is June 1. Photograph: Nasa/AFP/Getty ...

People and organisations: Getty Images  NASA 

As the Atlantic hurricane season begins, the forecasters are all over the map
Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:59:00 +0200   guardian (en)

Predicting the number of named storms that will form is an inexact science, and no one knows how many will make landfall This weekend marks the first in the official Atlantic hurricane season. Yet, a week prior to its launch the south-east coast of the United States was hit by tropical storm Beryl.

People and organisations: El Niño  National Hurricane Center  William Gray  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), WMO (1), OCHA (1), JTWC (3), BOM (1), Unisys (1), NASA (1), SWCB (1),

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