Overall Orange alert Flood for Somalia
in Somalia

Flood impact summary

Flood Somalia is expected to have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID: 1100240
Deaths: 11
Displaced: 270000
Region: Bari, Bay, Gedo, Hiiraan, Nugaal, Baidoa, Belet Weyne, Bardheere, Luuq, Doolow, Jowhar, Jubaland Government Guest house, Somalia
Countries: Somalia
From - To 20 Oct - 20 Oct
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 20-10-2019

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 3 Somalia Belet Weyne
death 4 Somalia Belet Weyne
death 4 Somalia Bardheere
missing 4 Somalia Belet Weyne
SENDAI Indicator B N Country Location Info
affected 6000 Somalia Baidoa, Jubaland Government Guest house, Bardheere
displaced 270000 Somalia Somalia
SENDAI Indicator C N Country Location Info
agriculture 250 Somalia Bardheere, Luuq, Doolow
agriculture 10200 Somalia Jowhar
SENDAI Indicator D N Country Location Info
roads - Somalia Baidoa

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2019-10-13 / 2019-10-27  

Sunday 13/10Monday 14/10Tuesday 15/10Wednesday 16/10Thursday 17/10Friday 18/10Saturday 19/10Sunday 20/10Monday 21/10Tuesday 22/10Wednesday 23/10Thursday 24/10Friday 25/10Saturday 26/10Sunday 27/10

Timeline of revisions

For accessing reports of previous advisories, please click on the advisory number in the table below.

IDAlert ColorPopulation affectedStart DateEnd DateSource
1 11 deaths and 270000 displaced 20 Oct 2019 20 Oct 2019 GLOFAS

Flood polygons

This polygon (translucent blue with a blue border) is drawn by the analysts recording the flood event. It is meant to include all the areas reported as affected, by official source or the media. It does not represent the area actually under water.

Microwave flood detection

Flooded area, as detected in microwaves by the Global Flood Detection System of the JRC, based on NASA TRMM/GPM observations. This system has a rather low resolution (of 5-10km) but is not affected by clouds.
For more details, see http://www.unisdr.org/files/9622_LBNA23303ENC002.pdf.
The areas with a flood signal along the coast are an artefact of the system and should not be considered.

Optical Flood detection

Flooded area as detected in optical wavelengths by NASA/MODIS, known as "MODIS Flood Product". Data are made available by NASA GSFC Flood Mapping Project, http://oas.gsfc.nasa.gov/floodmap/index.html. Resolution of 250m, heavily affected by cloud cover.