Overall Green alert Flood for Panama
in Panama

Flood impact summary

Flood Panama is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID: 1101177
Deaths: 2
Displaced: -
Region: Juan Díaz, Chepo
Countries: Panama
From - To 17 Nov - 22 Nov
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 22-11-2021

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 2 Panama Chepo
SENDAI Indicator C N Country Location Info
houses 30 Panama Juan Díaz

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2021-11-10 / 2021-11-29  

Wednesday 10/11Thursday 11/11Friday 12/11Saturday 13/11Sunday 14/11Monday 15/11Tuesday 16/11Wednesday 17/11Thursday 18/11Friday 19/11Saturday 20/11Sunday 21/11Monday 22/11Tuesday 23/11Wednesday 24/11Thursday 25/11Friday 26/11Saturday 27/11Sunday 28/11Monday 29/11

Timeline of revisions

For accessing reports of previous advisories, please click on the advisory number in the table below.

IDAlert ColorPopulation affectedStart DateEnd DateSource
1 2 deaths 17 Nov 2021 22 Nov 2021 GLOFAS

Flood polygons

This polygon (translucent blue with a blue border) is drawn by the analysts recording the flood event. It is meant to include all the areas reported as affected, by official source or the media. It does not represent the area actually under water.

Microwave flood detection

Flooded area, as detected in microwaves by the Global Flood Detection System of the JRC, based on NASA TRMM/GPM observations. This system has a rather low resolution (of 5-10km) but is not affected by clouds.
For more details, see http://www.unisdr.org/files/9622_LBNA23303ENC002.pdf.
The areas with a flood signal along the coast are an artefact of the system and should not be considered.

Optical Flood detection

Flooded area as detected in optical wavelengths by NASA/MODIS, known as "MODIS Flood Product". Data are made available by NASA GSFC Flood Mapping Project, http://oas.gsfc.nasa.gov/floodmap/index.html. Resolution of 250m, heavily affected by cloud cover.