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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for ALBERTO-12 from 19/05/2012 21:00 UTC to 22/05/2012 15:00 UTC
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Tropical Cyclone impact
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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 ALBERTO-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 12.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 83 km/h)
  • from 19/05/2012 21:00 UTC to 22/05/2012 15:00 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: al0112 (jtwcId) AL012012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 129 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Subtropical Storm Beryl forms off S.C. coast
Sat, 26 May 2012 06:57:00 +0200   msnbc (en)

Subtropical Storm Beryl formed off the South Carolina coast on Friday and forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning for parts of the Southeast.

People and organisations:

Weakened Bud nears Puerto Vallarta
Sat, 26 May 2012 04:39:00 +0200   msnbc (en)

Bud weakened to a tropical storm Friday night as it headed toward a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast south of Puerto Vallarta.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Hurricane Center 

Hurricane Bud May Weaken Further Before Drenching Mexico
Fri, 25 May 2012 23:55:00 +0200   bloomberg (en)

Hurricane Bud may weaken to a tropical storm before it goes ashore on Mexico ’s southwestern coast near Puerto Vallarta, where it will probably hover with drenching rain through the weekend. The storm’s winds have diminished to 75 miles (121 kilometers) per hour, down from 115 mph overnight, the U.S.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Florida Division  San Telmo  Hurricane Center  Emergency 

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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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