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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for EWINIAR-12 from 24/09/2012 12:00 UTC to 29/09/2012 12:00 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 EWINIAR-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 23.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 101 km/h)
  • from 24/09/2012 12:00 UTC to 29/09/2012 12:00 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

The maximum Storm surge height is  0.2m in Ishinomura, Japan. This height is estimated for 26 Sep 2012 00:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: wp1912 (jtwcId) WP192012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Japan braces as typhoons loom
Sat, 29 Sep 2012 04:25:00 +0200   nation (en)

TOKYO - Japan was on alert for violent winds and torrential rain on Friday as two typhoons loomed nearby.A very strong typhoon was near Taiwan, about 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of the southern Japanese island of Ishigaki as of 2:00 pm (0500 GMT), packing winds of 180 kilometres (110 miles) per hour near its centre, the weather agency said.

People and organisations:

Rains lash Japan ahead of typhoon
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:04:00 +0200   aljazeera-en (en)

All flights and ships into and out of Japan's Okinawa islands cancelled, as pacific nation braces for Typhoon Jelawat.

People and organisations:

Japan braces as typhoons loom
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:30:00 +0200   channelnewsasia (en)

TOKYO: Japan was on alert for violent winds and torrential rain on Friday as two typhoons loomed nearby.

People and organisations:

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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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