Overall Orange Tropical Cyclone alert for SANBA-12 in Korea, Republic of, Japan from 11 Sep 2012 00:00 UTC to 17 Sep 2012 06:00 UTC

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Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for SANBA-12

in Korea, Republic of, Japan

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	TC 32498
Name	SANBA-12
From - To	11 Sep - 17 Sep
Exposed countries	Korea, Republic of, Japan
Exposed population	12.4 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	286 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge	1.5 m (17 Sep 03:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Low (South Korea)

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
JRC	84 km/h	1.5 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.

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Tourists stranded by China typhoon back homeThu, 20 Sep 2012 09:33:00 +0200.

Over 700 Russian tourists who were stranded by typhoon Sanba in China have safely returned to their homes.

Typhoon Sanba washes away roads in PrimoryeTue, 18 Sep 2012 16:13:00 +0200.

Typhoon Sanba attacked Primorye on the night of September, 18 while incessant rains have flooded the South part of the region - Vladivostok, Nakhodka and Partizansk. Almost a month's worth of precipitation has been registered here during th

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Aftermath of Typhoon Sanba in VladivostokTue, 18 Sep 2012 12:33:00 +0200.

Tropical typhoon Sanba, the most powerful to hit the Primorye Territory for 20 years, began moving away from Vladivostok during the second half of the day on Tuesday and pushed toward the north of the territory.

Typhoon Sanba gradually leaving south of Russian PrimoryeTue, 18 Sep 2012 11:13:00 +0200.

Landslide was fixed in one of Vladivostok districts, in which a made-up pad used as a parking lot collapsed under torrents of water

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