WTPQ40 LIJR 070705 TROPICAL CYCLONE ALERT MESSAGE NUMBER 001 THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC ALERT FROM THE GLOBAL DISASTER ALERTS AND COORDINATION SYSTEM (WWW.GDACS.ORG) ******************************************************* * ORANGE ALERT FOR TROPICAL CYCLONE CHAN-HOM-15 * ******************************************************* SUMMARY TROPICAL CYCLONE CHAN-HOM-15 CAN HAVE A MEDIUM HUMANITARIAN IMPACT BASED ON THE MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WIND SPEED AND THE AFFECTED POPULATION AND THEIR VULNERABILITY. UPDATED: THIS REPORT IS BASED ON ADVISORY NUMBER 27. WIND --------------- -TROPICAL CYCLONE TROPICAL STORM (MAXIMUM WIND SPEED OF 166.67 KM/H) -ON 07 JUL 2015 00:00:00 UTC -POPULATION AFFECTED BY CATEGORY 1 (120 KM/H) WIND SPEEDS OR HIGHER IS 12.7 M -VULNERABILITY: MEDIUM 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: HTTP://DMA.GDACS.ORG/SAVED/GDACS/TC/1000172/RAIN_1000172_27.PNG STORM SURGE ------------- THE MAXIMUM STORM SURGE HEIGHT IS 1.3 M IN SONGMEN (CHINA). THIS HEIGHT IS ESTIMATED AT 7/10/2015 12:00:00 PM UTC. DETAILS =========== EVENT TIME LINE ---------------- THE STORM EVOLUTION IS SHOWN IN THE TABLE BELOW. ALERT LEVELS AND POPULATION ESTIMATES ARE RELATED TO THE AREA FROM A POINT TO THE NEXT. ADV. ALERT COL DATE UTC CATEGORY SPEED GUSTS POPULATION LAT/LON (WIND IN KM/H) AFFECTED 2 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 65 0 N/A 159.60/10.00 3 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 75 0 N/A 156.90/10.90 4 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 75 0 N/A 156.00/10.70 5 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 84 0 N/A 155.70/11.10 6 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 84 0 N/A 154.50/11.20 7 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 103 0 N/A 152.50/11.20 8 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 103 0 N/A 150.50/10.70 9 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 121 0 N/A 148.60/10.10 10 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 121 0 N/A 148.30/10.10 11 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 103 0 N/A 148.10/10.20 12 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 84 0 N/A 148.50/10.80 13 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 84 0 N/A 148.80/11.10 14 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 84 0 N/A 148.70/11.50 15 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 84 0 N/A 148.40/12.40 16 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 84 0 N/A 147.50/13.20 17 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 75 0 N/A 146.10/13.50 18 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 75 0 N/A 145.70/13.80 19 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 75 0 N/A 145.10/14.10 21 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 93 0 N/A 144.30/15.00 22 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 93 0 N/A 142.80/15.70 23 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 103 0 N/A 142.50/16.40 24 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 112 0 N/A 140.70/17.20 25 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 121 0 N/A 139.40/17.90 26 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 121 0 N/A 138.20/18.00 27 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 140 0 N/A 137.30/17.90 27 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 159 0 N/A 135.20/18.60 27 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 196 0 N/A 133.30/19.60 27 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 214 0 N/A 131.50/20.80 27 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 224 0 60 K 129.10/22.30 27 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 233 0 70 K 124.80/25.10 27 ORANGE 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 168 0 12.7 M 121.60/27.50 27 GREEN 07 JUL 2015 07:05 (X) TROPICAL STORM 93 0 N/A 120.20/29.80 ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST STORM SURGE LOCATIONS CALCULATION BASED ON ADVISORY NUMBER 27 OF 07 JUL 2015 00:00:00 (SIMULATION USING 2 MINUTE RESOLUTION) ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 10 JUL 2015 12:00 SONGMEN CHINA 1.3 10 JUL 2015 12:00 GUAN'AO CHINA 1.3 10 JUL 2015 12:00 DALU CHINA 1.3 10 JUL 2015 12:00 CHIN-CH'ING CHINA 1.1 10 JUL 2015 12:00 SAN-CHIA-SHI CHINA 1.1 10 JUL 2015 12:00 SHANGPAN CHINA 1.0 10 JUL 2015 12:00 LINGMEN CHINA 0.9 10 JUL 2015 12:00 AOHUAN CHINA 0.9 10 JUL 2015 12:00 CHENYU CHINA 0.8 10 JUL 2015 12:00 TOUYAN CHINA 0.8 10 JUL 2015 12:00 BEI'AO CHINA 0.8 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=TC$AND;EVENTID=1000172$AND;EPISODEID=27 JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE, EUROPEAN COMMISSION (JRC-EC) - OFFICE FOR COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (UN-OCHA) ________________________________________ DISCLAIMER WHILE WE TRY EVERYTHING TO ENSURE ACCURACY, THIS INFORMATION IS PURELY INDICATIVE AND SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ANY DECISION MAKING WITHOUT ALTERNATE SOURCES OF INFORMATION. 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