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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for GAEMI-12 in Cambodia, Viet Nam from 01/10/2012 18:00 UTC to 06/10/2012 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 GAEMI-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 21.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 101 km/h)
  • from 01/10/2012 18:00 UTC to 06/10/2012 12:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0
  • Vulnerability: High

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  0.3m in Ninh Ma, Vietnam. This height is estimated for 06 Oct 2012 13:00:00.

References

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

Latest media headlines

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

Viet Nam: Dozens of houses, schools damaged by typhoon Gaemi
Tue, 09 Oct 2012 05:44:00 +0200   reliefWeb (en)

Source: Government of Viet Nam Country: Viet Nam The storm Gaemi that passed through the central provinces of Vietnam yesterday damaged dozens of houses, schools, etc. It also caused heavy rains and floods in many areas. On October 8, the Committee for Flood-Storm Control and Search-Rescue of Quang....

People and organisations:

Typhoon Gaemi slows speed to 25 kph when it arrives in Cambodia: PM
Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:17:00 +0200   xinhuanet_en (en)

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has reduced its concern over the direct impact of a tropical storm Gaemi after the storm has slowed its speed to 25 kilometers per hour (kph) when it arrived in Cambodia's northwestern Stung Treng province on Sunday morning, Prime Minister Hun Sen said.

People and organisations: Xinhua News Agency  Hun Sen 

Laos warns southern, central provinces of typhoon Gaemi
Sun, 07 Oct 2012 04:22:00 +0200   chinadaily (en)

Lao Government Office has warned local residents and authorities in southern and central Laos of typhoon Gaemi's approach, which is threatening to bring flooding, strong winds, and landslides.

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), SWCB (1),

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