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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for CHRIS-12 from 19/06/2012 21:00 UTC to 22/06/2012 15:00 UTC
Summary
Tropical Cyclone impact
Media analysis
Data Resources
GDACS Event Report - Summary

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) Storm surge maximum height. (Source: JRC)

Tropical Cyclone CHRIS-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 12.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 120 km/h)
  • from 19/06/2012 21:00 UTC to 22/06/2012 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 maximum Storm surge height is  0.2m in Saint Josephs, . This height is estimated for 22 Jun 2012 17:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: al0312 (jtwcId) AL032012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 116 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Debby soaks Florida; governor declares emergency
Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:13:00 +0200   khaleejtimes (en)

TAMPA, Florida - Tropical Storm Debby drenched Florida with heavy rains, flooded low-lying neighborhoods and knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses as it lingered off the state's coast Monday.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Tom Kloza  Hurricane Dennis  Hurricane Center  Chris Landsea  Tropical Storm Debby  Florida Power 

Debby threatens more floods, tornadoes in Florida
Tue, 26 Jun 2012 03:22:00 +0200   thestar-my (en)

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Debby lashed parts of Florida with driving rains and high winds on Monday, threatening to trigger more flooding and tornadoes as it hovered off the state's northern Gulf of Mexico coast.

People and organisations: Tom Brown  National Hurricane Center  Offshore Oil Port  Florida Division  Hurricane Center  Tropical Storm Debby  Chris Baltimore  Emergency  Rick Scott  National Guard  Royal Dutch Shell  Eric Walsh 

Tropical Storm Debby 2012: Heather Town killed while shielding her daughter from tornado
Tue, 26 Jun 2012 03:16:00 +0200   dailymail (en)

Heather Town, 32, pictured, was found dead after the tornado ripped through her mobile home in Venus, Florida, in the debris of a barbed wire fence, with her young daughter in her arms.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Angela Kelly  Hurricane Center  Chris Landsea  Bay Times  Barbara Young  Tropical Storm Debby  The Times  Rick Scott  David Walker 

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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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