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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for MALIKSI-12 from 01/10/2012 12:00 UTC to 03/10/2012 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 MALIKSI-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 14.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 83 km/h)
  • from 01/10/2012 12:00 UTC to 03/10/2012 18:00 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 Higashi, Japan. This height is estimated for 03 Oct 2012 02:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: sh2112 (jtwcId) SH212012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 4 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Typhoon Maliksi looming off Japan
Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:06:00 +0200   radioaustralianews (en)

Japan's Meteorological Agency has issued a strong typhoon warning for the country's north-east.

People and organisations: Meteorological Agency 

Typhoon Maliksi nearing Japan's northeast
Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:16:00 +0200   nst (en)

TOKYO: A strong typhoon was looming off Japan’s northeastern Pacific coast on Thursday, the weather agency said.

People and organisations: Meteorological Agency 

Typhoon heading toward Ogasawaras
Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:41:00 +0200   japantimes (en)

A fast-moving typhoon packing winds of up to 126 kph was traveling north Wednesday over the Pacific near the Ogasawara Islands, the Meteorological Agency said. The agency warned of gusts and high tides through Thursday in areas near the expected path of Typhoon Maliksi along the Izu chain and the coast of the Kanto region.

People and organisations: Meteorological Agency 

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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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