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Green Tropical Cyclone alert for GUCHOL-12 in Japan from 12/06/2012 06:00 UTC to 19/06/2012 12:00 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 GUCHOL-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 35.

  • Tropical Cyclone Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 241 km/h)
  • from 12/06/2012 06:00 UTC to 19/06/2012 12:00 UTC
  • Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0
  • Vulnerability: Low

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  1.3m in Takahama, . This height is estimated for 19 Jun 2012 13:00:00.

References

Known identifiers for this event: wp0512 (jtwcId) WP052012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 152 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Fukushima Plant Faces Typhoon Summer With Added Tornado Threat
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:54:00 +0200   bloomberg (en)

’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant faces its second typhoon season since the March 11 disaster last year, raising the risk of further radiation leaks if storms thrash exposed pools of uranium fuel rods or tanks holding contaminated water. Typhoon Guchol hit Japan this week and moved up the main....

People and organisations: Meteorological Agency  Masataka Shimizu  Fukushima Dai-ichi  Junichi Matsumoto  Tokyo Electric Power 

Japan zoo hunts squirrels that fled in typhoon
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:34:00 +0200   panorama-am-en (en)

Zookeepers in Japan were Thursday hunting a group of squirrels that made a break for freedom under cover of a powerful typhoon, AFP reported. About 30 of the bushy-tailed creatures ...

People and organisations: Park Zoo 

National › Tokyo zoo hunts squirrels that fled during typhoon
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:19:00 +0200   japantoday (en)

Zookeepers in Tokyo were Thursday hunting a group of squirrels that made a break for freedom under cover of a powerful typhoon. About 30 of the bushy-tailed creatures saw their chance when typhoon Guchol felled a tree near their enclosure at Tokyo's Inokashira Park Zoo, cutting a hole in the…

People and organisations: Park Zoo 

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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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