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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for TEMBIN-12 in China from 19/08/2012 00:00 UTC to 30/08/2012 00:00 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 TEMBIN-12 can have a high humanitarian impact based on the Maximum sustained wind speed and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Updated: this report is based on advisory number 45.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 212 km/h)
  • from 19/08/2012 00:00 UTC to 30/08/2012 00:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 3.8million
  • 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  0.9m in Hsing-ch'en, China. This height is estimated for 25 Aug 2012 01:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: wp1512 (jtwcId) WP152012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 517 | About casualties: 69 | Last hour: 0

No need to shell out for dinner! Russians flock to Siberian beach after typhoon throws millions of clams and crabs ashore
Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:32:00 +0200   mailonsunday (en)

Typhoon Bolaven caused the tidal wave of molluscs and crustaceans to be flung on to a beach in Vladivostok, which saw locals rushing to gather up armfuls of shellfish.

People and organisations:

No need to shell out for dinner! Russians flock to Siberian beach after typhoon throws millions of clams and crabs ashore
Sat, 01 Sep 2012 12:33:00 +0200   dailymail (en)

Typhoon Bolaven caused the tidal wave of molluscs and crustaceans to be flung on to a beach in Vladivostok, which saw locals rushing to gather up armfuls of shellfish.

People and organisations:

Up to 2 more storms may hit Taiwan this year: CWB
Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:34:00 +0200   ChinaPost (en)

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - As many as two more tropical storms or typhoons may hit Taiwan this autumn as the typhoon season this year has so far been particularly active, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday.

People and organisations: El Niño 

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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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