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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for ERNESTO-12 in Belize, Mexico from 03/08/2012 03:00 UTC to 10/08/2012 09:00 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 ERNESTO-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 36.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 138 km/h)
  • from 03/08/2012 03:00 UTC to 10/08/2012 09:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.2million
  • 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  1.9m in Arrozal, Mexico. This height is estimated for 08 Aug 2012 20:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: TC-2012-000133-BLZ (glide) TC-2012-000137-MEX (glide) al0512 (jtwcId) AL052012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 800 | About casualties: 61 | Last hour: 0

Hurricane hits coast of Mexico
Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:10:00 +0200   irishsun (en)

HURRICANE Ernesto has come ashore on Mexico's Caribbean coast near the border with Belize, after hundreds of tourists left beach resorts and fishermen abandoned low-lying villages to avoid the ...

People and organisations: Hurricane Ernesto 

Ernesto death toll in Mexico reaches 11
Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:57:00 +0200   gulf-times (en)

Ernesto [[killed]] 11 people after hitting Mexico as a hurricane, Mexican authorities said as the storm death toll continued to rise. Ernesto dissipated on Friday over the country’s mountainous southern regions, although heavy rain associated with it persisted in some areas.

People and organisations:

Freshwater Layers in Seas Found to Speed Up Hurricanes
Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:24:00 +0200   scientificamerican (en)

Earth’s most powerful storms sometimes called hurricanes or typhoons but collectively known to scientists as tropical cyclones remain dangerously unpredictable. And what’s most mysterious about tropical cyclones is what we would most like to know: how strong they are likely to become.

People and organisations: Hurricane Ernesto  Hurricane Omar  NASA 

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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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