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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for DAMREY-12 in China from 30/07/2012 00:00 UTC to 02/08/2012 18:00 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 DAMREY-12 can have a medium 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 138 km/h)
  • from 30/07/2012 00:00 UTC to 02/08/2012 18:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 15000
  • Vulnerability: Medium

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  2.5m in Xugou, China. This height is estimated for 02 Aug 2012 15:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: wp1112 (jtwcId) WP112012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 139 | About casualties: 18 | Last hour: 0

China Braces for Record Third Typhoon after 2 Storms
Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:46:00 +0200   almanar-en (en)

China braced on Monday for a record third typhoon in a week after two powerful storms smashed into its eastern coast over the weekend leaving at least 14 people dead and large areas under water

People and organisations: Water Resources  Chen Lei 

Typhoon-triggered rainstorm leaves 23 dead, 9 missing
Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:24:00 +0200   xinhuanet_en (en)

WUHAN/SHENYANG/BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-three people have been confirmed dead and nine others remained missing after typhoons Damrey and Saola tore through China's eastern coastal regions over the weekend, local authorities said Monday. As of 5 p.m.

People and organisations: Xinhua News Agency 

450 trapped in a flooded tunnel in China
Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:20:00 +0200   news_com_au (en)

HUNDREDS of construction workers are trapped in a Chinese railway tunnel after heavy rains brought by Typhoon Damrey.

People and organisations: Xinhua News Agency 

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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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