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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for ALETTA-12 from 15/05/2012 03:00 UTC to 19/05/2012 15:00 UTC
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Tropical Cyclone impact
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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)

Tropical Cyclone ALETTA-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 Depression (maximum wind speed of 74 km/h)
  • from 15/05/2012 03:00 UTC to 19/05/2012 15:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0

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 tropical cyclone did not reach sufficient strength to cause significant storm surge.

References

Known identifiers for this event: ep0112 (jtwcId) EP012012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 15 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Tropical storm watch canceled for SC
Sun, 20 May 2012 23:12:00 +0200   cnn (en)

A large swath of coastal South Carolina is under a tropical storm watch due to Alberto, the first named tropical storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  National Weather Service  Hurricane Center  Sean Morris 

Alberto forecast to stay offshore; tropical storm watch remains
Sun, 20 May 2012 20:03:00 +0200   cnn (en)

Although Tropical Storm Alberto remained offshore, a swath of coastal South Carolina could experience tropical storm conditions Sunday and Monday, the National Hurricane Center said.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  National Weather Service  Hurricane Center  Sean Morris 

Une première tempête tropicale s'est formée dans la saison des ouragans en Atlantique
Sun, 20 May 2012 16:33:00 +0200   ruvr-fr (fr)

Une première tempête tropicale s'est formée dans la saison des ouragans en Atlantique. Elle a été appelée " Alberto ". " Alberto " se trouve d'environ 200 km de côte sud-est de l'état américain de Caroline du Sud.

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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),

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