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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for EMILIA-12 from 08/07/2012 03:00 UTC to 15/07/2012 15:00 UTC
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 EMILIA-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 32.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 222 km/h)
  • from 08/07/2012 03:00 UTC to 15/07/2012 15:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0

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

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References

Known identifiers for this event: ep0512 (jtwcId) EP052012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 49 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Fabio Weakens, Spotted Chasing Emilia's Remnants
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:57:00 +0200   news-yahoo (en)

After more than a week of back-to-back storms, the East Pacific is finally beginning to quiet down, with Hurricane Fabio weakening into a tropical storm.

People and organisations: International Space Station  Hurricane Center  National Hurricane Center 

Hurricane Fabio weakens off coast of Mexico
Mon, 16 Jul 2012 01:38:00 +0200   channelnewsasia (en)

MIAMI: Hurricane Fabio weakened off the coast of Mexico in the Pacific Ocean, US forecasters said Sunday, adding that no coastal watches were in effect.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Hurricane Center 

Tropical Storm Emilia's impact should be minimal
Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:16:00 +0200   HonululuAdvertiser (en)

Former Hurricane Daniel has moved past the Hawaiian islands with minimal effect on the weather, and Tropical Storm Emilia, expected to reach the islands on Wednesday, isn't expected to have much of an impact, either.

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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), OCHA (1), JTWC (3), BOM (1), Unisys (1), NASA (1),

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