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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for DEBBY-12 in United States from 23/06/2012 21:00 UTC to 27/06/2012 21:00 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 DEBBY-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 18.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 93 km/h)
  • from 23/06/2012 21:00 UTC to 27/06/2012 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 maximum Storm surge height is  2.3m in Skipper, . This height is estimated for 25 Jun 2012 23:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: al0412 (jtwcId) AL042012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 476 | About casualties: 23 | Last hour: 0

Researchers Observe Climate Change, First-Hand
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:34:00 +0200   npr (en)

As the climate changes, scientists are documenting measurable shifts in the natural world — from a tremendous loss in Arctic sea ice and an increase in extreme weather like drought, floods and heatwaves, to the migration of plants and animals to new latitudes.

People and organisations: Michael Williams  Richard Harris  Richard Harris  Tropical Storm Debby  Mount Fuji  US Geological Survey  The Nation  Patrick Murray 

While Colorado burns, Washington fiddles | Bill McKibben
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:29:00 +0200   guardian (en)

Drought, wildfires, storms, floods – climate change is happening, but the real disaster is our Big Energy-owned politicians' inaction In the political world, this was the week of the healthcare ruling: reporters hovered around the supreme court, pundits pundited, politicians "braced" for the ruling, "reeled" in its aftermath.

People and organisations: Waldo Canyon  Mitt Romney  Rex Tillerson  Bill McKibben  Colorado Springs 

HouseLogic Helps Homeowners Clean Up After Floods
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:38:00 +0200   finanznachrichten-en (en)

WASHINGTON, DC -- (Marketwire) -- 06/29/12 -- As Florida residents clean up in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Debby, many more Americans can anticipate flooding and damage during this year's hur...

People and organisations: Tropical Storm Debby 

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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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