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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for DANIEL-12 from 05/07/2012 15:00 UTC to 12/07/2012 03:00 UTC
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 DANIEL-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 32.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 185 km/h)
  • from 05/07/2012 15:00 UTC to 12/07/2012 03:00 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

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References

Known identifiers for this event: ep0412 (jtwcId) EP042012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 48 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Tropical Storm Emilia's impact should be minimal
Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:16:00 +0200   HonululuAdvertiser (en)

Former Hurricane Daniel has moved past the Hawaiian islands with minimal effect on the weather, and Tropical Storm Emilia, expected to reach the islands on Wednesday, isn't expected to have much of an impact, either.

People and organisations:

A weakened Daniel still could kick up high surf
Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:04:00 +0200   HonululuAdvertiser (en)

The vestiges of Hurricane Daniel — now a remnant low-pressure system — began bringing higher surf to the east shores of Hawaii island Wednesday and could bring higher surf to the other islands, the National Weather Service said.

People and organisations: National Weather Service 

Hurricane Emilia Forecast to Weaken in Pacific
Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:51:00 +0200   ABCnews (en)

Hurricane Emilia is forecast to weaken in Pacific; Tropical Storm Daniel heading west

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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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