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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for GORDON-12 in Portugal from 16/08/2012 09:00 UTC to 20/08/2012 21:00 UTC
Summary
Tropical Cyclone impact
Storm surge
Extreme rain
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 GORDON-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 Storm (maximum wind speed of 175 km/h)
  • from 16/08/2012 09:00 UTC to 20/08/2012 21:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 6000
  • Vulnerability: Low

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  0.4m in Vila do Porto, Portugal. This height is estimated for 20 Aug 2012 04:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: al0812 (jtwcId) AL082012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 102 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Tropical Storm Joyce forms in eastern Atlantic over open water, no threat to land for now
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:24:00 +0200   newschannel5 (en)

Tropical Storm Joyce forms in eastern Atlantic over open water, no threat to land for now.

People and organisations: Hurricane Gordon  Hurricane Ernesto  Mitt Romney  Angela Merkel  Hurricane Helene 

Tropical Storm Isaac linked to one death; Joyce might be coming
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:51:00 +0200   caribbean360 (en)

Elderly woman dies in Puerto Rico; weather forecasters believe an existing tropical depression is likely to become Tropical Storm Joyce in the near future.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  National Convention  Hurricane Gordon  Hurricane Center 

Tropical storm a-brewing, headed for Haiti, Cuba ... Tampa?
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:55:00 +0200   csmonitor (en)

It's still a tropical depression, but forecasters expect it to become a hurricane by early Thursday. Some models show it dousing Tampa, Fla. – and the Republican National Convention – next week.

People and organisations: Hurricane Gordon  White House  Christian Science Monitor  Christian Science Monitor  NASA 

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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), WMO (1), OCHA (1), JTWC (3), BOM (1), Unisys (1), NASA (1), SWCB (1),

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