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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for NINETEEN-12 from 07/05/2012 00:00 UTC to 12:00
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Automatic impact report for tropical cyclone NINETEEN-12
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This tropical cyclone is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the storm strength and the affected population in the past and forecasted path.

Current storm status

This report is for advisory number 2 of tropical cyclone NINETEEN-12 issued at 5/7/2012 12:00:00 PM (GDACS Event ID 30114, Latest episode ID: 2).

Current impact estimate:

  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0
  • Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 64 km/h)
  • Vulnerability of affected countries:

Impact of Extreme Wind

Cloud map
Cloud map. The map shows the areas affected by tropical storm strength winds (green), 58mph winds (orange) and cyclone wind strengths (red). (Source: JRC)

Affected population

Up to no people people can be affected by wind speeds of tropical storm strength or above. In addition, no people people are living in coastal areas below 5m and can therefore be affected by storm surge.

Affected country

Affected provinces

Affected cities

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

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.

Advisory Alert color Date (UTC) Category Wind speed Wind gusts Population affected
by cyclone winds (>120km/h)		 Location (lon, lat)
1
green
 5/7/2012 6:00:00 AM Tropical storm 64 km/h (40 mph) 84 km/h (52 mph) no people 129.3, -6.9
2
green
 5/7/2012 12:00:00 PM Tropical depression 56 km/h (35 mph) 74 km/h (46 mph) no people 129.8, -8.1
2
green
 5/8/2012 Tropical depression 47 km/h (29 mph) 64 km/h (40 mph) no people 129.7, -8.9
2
green
 5/8/2012 12:00:00 PM Tropical depression 47 km/h (29 mph) 64 km/h (40 mph) no people 129, -10

Previous advisories

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

AdvisoryAlert colorDate (UTC)CategoryMaximum sustained
wind speed (km/h)		Population affected
by cyclone winds (>120km/h)		Affected countriesDate added (UTC)
25/7/2012 12:00:00 PM Tropical depression 56 No people affected   02:22:27 GMT

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Data resources

For a full list of available products related to this event, please refer to the GDACS Resources page.

About the data

The information on storm characteristics is taken from a web service provided by the Pacific Disaster Center, which processes the official advisory bulletins.

JRC calculates areas affected by high winds (wind buffers at 39, 58 and 74mph). This is done using the maximum reported wind radius (maximum of 4 quadrants) or, in case no wind radii are provided, through a regression analysis based on historical data. JRC also calculates the area affected by storm surge using HyFlux2 (hydrodynamic software).

Sources for data on critical infrastructure are: JRC NUMAS database (nuclear plants), ESRI (hydro dams, 1996), Global Discovery (airports, ports and cities).

Population data is from LandScan 2010.

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. The JRC is not responsible for any damage or loss resulting from the use of the information presented on this website.