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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for FABIO-12 from 12/07/2012 21:00 UTC to 18/07/2012 15:00 UTC
Summary
Tropical Cyclone impact
Storm surge
Extreme rain
Media analysis
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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) Storm surge maximum height. (Source: JRC)

Tropical Cyclone FABIO-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 27.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 167 km/h)
  • from 12/07/2012 21:00 UTC to 18/07/2012 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: ep0612 (jtwcId) EP062012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 24 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Tropical Storm Fabio weakens in Pacific
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:58:00 +0200   usaToday (en)

Swells generated by Fabio are spreading north along the coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and could also reach southern California

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Hurricane Center  Brent Jones 

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 

Tropical Storm Fabio Weakens as It Heads North
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:52:00 +0200   ABCnews (en)

Tropical Storm Fabio is weakening as it heads north in the Pacific. The storm's maximum sustained winds early Tuesday have decreased to near 50 mph (85 kph) with additional weakening forecast. In the meantime, the U.S. National Hurricane Center says swells generated by Fabio are spreading northward....

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  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), OCHA (1), JTWC (3), BOM (1), Unisys (1), NASA (1),

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