Tropical Cyclone ISAAC-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 39.

• Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 130 km/h)
• from 21/08/2012 21:00 UTC to 30/08/2012 21:00 UTC
• Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 1.5million
• Vulnerability: Low

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

 3.5m

Known identifiers for this event: TC-2012-000152-HTI (glide) sh1912 (jtwcId) SH192012 (noaaId)

Links and resources

• Met Office of Haiti: official source of weather and forecast information of the National Meteorological Service of Haiti (http://www.meteo-haiti.gouv.ht/ )
• Vigilance (Haiti): latest and regularly updated weather warnings (http://www.meteo-haiti.gouv.ht/vigilance.php)
• RMSC Miami: additional technical information issued by WMO's regional centre (Miami) (http://severe.worldweather.wmo.int/tc/cgn/pop-ups/tc/miami02420120824232.meta.html)
• WMO Severe Weather: Severe Weather Information Service, which includes tracking of active tropical storms (http://severe.worldweather.wmo.int/tc/cgn/)

Latest media headlines

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Louisiana blames fifth U.S. death on Isaac
Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:00:00 +0200   cnn (en)

Louisiana authorities blamed a fifth death on the effects of last week's Hurricane Isaac on Monday after a 90-year-old man died in a sweltering home without electricity in suburban New Orleans.

People and organisations: Jefferson Parish  National Weather Service  Tim Kerner  J Carter  National Guard  David Ariosto  Rick Martin  Hurricane Katrina  Barack Obama  Matt Smith  Tammany Parish  Juan Bautista  Bobby Jindal  Greg Botelho  Martin George 

Authorities end search for second Wash. shooter
Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:00:00 +0200   news-yahoo (en)

Authorities in Washington state have called off their search for a second sniper after looking through a neighborhood and nearby woods where a man suspected of opening fire on a SWAT team and police officers was found dead.

People and organisations: Ligue 1  Homeland Security  Blackburn Rovers  National Weather Service  Mitt Romney  Zlatan Ibrahimović  Benni McCarthy  Louisiana State University  Paris Saint-Germain  Barack Obama  Robert Mann  World Cup  Janet Napolitano 

Holmgren hopes to finish contract with Browns
Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:00:00 +0200   news-yahoo (en)

Browns President Mike Holmgren hopes to finish his contract with a Cleveland franchise in the midst of an ownership change.

People and organisations: Lee Kun-Hee  Samsung  Samsung  Randy Lerner  Harvard Law School  Mariano Rajoy  Mike Holmgren 

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EMM (1), JRC (33), TRMM (1), NOAA (4), (2), WMO (5), OCHA (1), JTWC (3), BOM (1), Unisys (1), NASA (1), SWCB (1),

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