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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for CARLOTTA-12 in Mexico from 14/06/2012 09:00 UTC to 17/06/2012 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 CARLOTTA-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 13.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 167 km/h)
  • from 14/06/2012 09:00 UTC to 17/06/2012 03:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 1.2million
  • 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  0.6m in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. This height is estimated for 16 Jun 2012 03:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: TC-2012-000104-MEX (glide) ep0312 (jtwcId) EP032012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 188 | About casualties: 23 | Last hour: 0

Carlotta Loses Hurricane Strength After Mexico Landfall
Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:02:00 +0200   bloomberg (en)

By Amanda Jordan and Jonathan J. Levin - 2012-06-16T18:42:51Z Carlotta, the second hurricane of the Eastern Pacific season, weakened to a tropical depression over the mountains of southern Mexico after producing mudslides that [[killed]] two girls. Carlotta, with winds of 35 miles (55 kilometers) per....

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Hurricane Center 

Hurricane Carlotta Becomes Category 2 Storm
Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:32:00 +0200   bloomberg (en)

The center of Tropical Storm Carlotta, the second hurricane of the Eastern Pacific season, was 10 miles (16 kilometers) southwest of Mexico ’s Puerto Angel shortly before 8 p.m. East Coast time, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Carlotta, a Category 2 storm with winds of 105 miles (169....

People and organisations: Hurricane Center  Jesús Vásquez  National Hurricane Center 

Mexico officials report 3rd death after Carlotta
Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:27:00 +0200   JakartaPost (en)

Authorities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca are blaming Hurricane Carlotta for a third death.Oaxaca state Attorney General Manuel de Jesus Lopez said Sunday that a 56-year-old woman died ...

People and organisations: Jesús López 

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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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