Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for BOLAVEN-12
in Japan

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone BOLAVEN-12 can have a high humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 32007
Name BOLAVEN-12
From - To 20 Aug - 28 Aug
Exposed countries Japan
Exposed population 1.2 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 249 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 2.5 m (28 Aug 11:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Japan)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 64 km/h 2.5 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 783 | About casualties: 141 | Last hour: 0

No need to shell out for dinner! Russians flock to Siberian beach afte ... Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:32:00 +0200.

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.
No need to shell out for dinner! Russians flock to Siberian beach afte ... Sat, 01 Sep 2012 12:33:00 +0200.

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.
Philippines (the): Philippines: Floods - Emergency appeal n° MDRPH010Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:16:00 +0200.

Source: IFRC Country: Philippines (the) Emergency appeal n° MDRPH010 GLIDE n° FL-2012-000130-PHL 30 August 2012 This emergency appeal seeks CHF 1,772,243 in cash, kind, or services to support the Philippine Red Cross to assist 20,000 famili
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Typhoon Bolaven helps douse wildfiresFri, 31 Aug 2012 11:10:00 +0200.

Typhoon Bolaven has helped firefighters to put out wildfires in the Khabarovsk Region, the local administration says.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),