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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for MIRIAM-12 from 22/09/2012 15:00 UTC to 28/09/2012 03:00 UTC
Summary
Tropical Cyclone impact
Storm surge
Extreme rain
Media analysis
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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 MIRIAM-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 25.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 194 km/h)
  • from 22/09/2012 15:00 UTC to 28/09/2012 03:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0

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

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References

Known identifiers for this event: ep1312 (jtwcId) EP132012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 27 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Tropical Storm Nadine still roaming Atlantic
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 05:37:00 +0200   newschannel5 (en)

MIAMI (AP) - Forecasters say Tropical Storm Nadine continues to roam the eastern Atlantic. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Nadine is 740 miles (1191 kilometers) south-southwest of the Azores islands, with top sustained winds of 65 mph (105 kph). It was moving west at 7 mph (11 kph) at 11 p.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Hurricane Center 

TS Nadine strengthens as TS Miriam weakens
Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:39:00 +0200   upi (en)

MIAMI, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Nadine was expected to strengthen while Tropical Storm Miriam was forecast to weaken, U.S. weather forecasters said Thursday.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Hurricane Center 

Nadine could intensify; Miriam loses steam
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:29:00 +0200   upi (en)

MIAMI, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Nadine could strengthen over the next few days while Tropical Storm Miriam is expected to lose some punch, U.S. weather forecasters said.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Hurricane Center 

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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), OCHA (1), JTWC (3), BOM (1), Unisys (1), NASA (1),

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