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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for JELAWAT-12 in Japan from 20/09/2012 18:00 UTC to 30/09/2012 18:00 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 JELAWAT-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 42.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 259 km/h)
  • from 20/09/2012 18:00 UTC to 30/09/2012 18:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0
  • 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

The maximum Storm surge height is  0.7m in Kin, Japan. This height is estimated for 29 Sep 2012 00:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: TC-2012-000171-JPN (glide) wp1812 (jtwcId) WP182012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 170 | About casualties: 31 | Last hour: 0

Jelawat s’approche du Japon
Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:03:00 +0200   cctv-fr (fr)

Un typhon Jelawat s’approche des îles principales de l’archipel du Japon, après avoir touché les préfectures d’Okinawa et de Kagoshima samedi. Il avance maintenant à 45 kilomètres à l’heure selon l’agence météorologique du Japon. De grands vents, de fortes précipitations et des inondations sont prévus pour les prochains jours.

People and organisations:

Young pianist Umi delighted to capture Osaka prize
Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:41:00 +0200   japantimes (en)

Notwithstanding the best efforts of Typhoon Jelawat, which swept over Osaka on Saturday night, the 13th Osaka International Music Competition was held over the weekend, with more than 800 musicians from around the world competing in 40 categories and age groups.

People and organisations: Japan Times  Japan Times  Symphony Orchestra  Franz Liszt  Frédéric Chopin 

Regardez l'actualité
Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:12:00 +0200   Liberation (fr)

Le smoking, les sahariennes, les robes de mousseline etc: Hedi Slimane, figure mythique du milieu de la mode pour avoir révolutionné le vestiaire masculin, a enfin dévoilé sa vision de la femme pour Saint Laurent, dont il a remixé les codes pour mieux les moderniser.

People and organisations: Christian Hartmann  Reuters Bureau  Hugo Chavez  Jorge Silva  Hedi Slimane  Mikhail Saakashvili  Henrique Capriles  Henrique Capriles  Jean-Luc Mélenchon  Gonzalo Fuentes  Bidzina Ivanishvili 

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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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