Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for HELENE-12
in Mexico

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone HELENE-12 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 31836
Name HELENE-12
From - To 17 Aug - 19 Aug
Exposed countries Mexico
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 101 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge n.a.
Vulnerability Medium (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC n.a n.a. n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Federation on Tropical Storm Warning 8/21/2012 10:04:00 PM.

St. Kitts Nevis has been put on a tropical storm warning for an approaching weather system. According to the National Hurricane Centre this afternoon Tropical Depression Nine was moving toward the west near 18 mph and this general motion is
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94L to Gradually Develop, Lesser Antilles Threatened First 8/20/2012 3:34:00 AM.

continues to move northeastward and will scrape the southern Azores as it weakens below hurricane status during the next few days. The remnants of Helene officially dissipated well inland over Mexico as per the NHC yesterday. However, this
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Storm Helene weakens, plows up Mexican coast 8/19/2012 1:42:00 AM.

Tropical Storm Helene made landfall off the Gulf of Mexico yesterday and weakened into a tropical depression as it plowed up Mexico’s east coast, the US National Hurricane Center said. The depression was about 15 miles (24 km) south-southwe
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Tropical Storm Helene weakens, plows up Mexican coast 8/19/2012 12:08:00 AM.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Helene made landfall off the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday and weakened into a tropical depression as it plowed up Mexico's east coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The depression was about 65
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), (1),