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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for SANVU-12 in Guam from 22/05/2012 00:00 UTC to 27/05/2012 06:00 UTC
Summary
Tropical Cyclone impact
Storm surge
Extreme rain
Media analysis
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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) Storm surge maximum height. (Source: JRC)

Tropical Cyclone SANVU-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 25.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 148 km/h)
  • from 22/05/2012 00:00 UTC to 27/05/2012 06:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0
  • 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  0.3m in Higashi, Japan. This height is estimated for 26 May 2012 00:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: wp0312 (jtwcId) WP032012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 13 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Tropical storm Sanvu struck Guam at about 00:00 GMT on 22 May.
Mon, 28 May 2012 06:43:00 +0200   trust (en)

Mon, 28 May 2012 00:14 GMT Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk Tropical storm Sanvu struck Guam at about 00:00 GMT on 22 May.Data supplied by theUS Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of landfallwasnear13.4 N,144.1 E.Sanvu brought 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of around74 km/h (46 mph).

People and organisations: College London  Met Office  University College  Air Force 

Tropical storm Sanvu struck Guam at about 18:00 GMT on 21 May.
Mon, 28 May 2012 06:43:00 +0200   trust (en)

Mon, 28 May 2012 00:14 GMT Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk Tropical storm Sanvu struck Guam at about 18:00 GMT on 21 May.Data supplied by theUS Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of landfallwasnear12.4 N,144.4 E.Sanvu brought 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of around64 km/h (40 mph).

People and organisations: College London  Met Office  University College  Air Force 

Year's second typhoon not likely to hit Taiwan: CWB
Wed, 23 May 2012 20:51:00 +0200   ChinaPost (en)

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - A new light typhoon was formed in area south of Guam but it will not affect Taiwan unless it changes its course when moving toward the sea south of Japan, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).

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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), SWCB (1),

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