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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for KIROGI-12 from 08/08/2012 06:00 UTC to 09/08/2012 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)

Tropical Cyclone KIROGI-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 83 km/h)
  • from 08/08/2012 06:00 UTC to 09/08/2012 18:00 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: wp1312 (jtwcId) WP132012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

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Storm THIRTEEN status update
Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:53:00 +0200   hewsweb (en)

At 12:00 PM , status update for the storm THIRTEEN . Wind: 35Kt, category: Tropical Storm

People and organisations: World Food Program  San Marcos  Emergency  Washington Post  Alta Verapaz 

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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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