Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for ERNESTO-12
in Belize, Mexico

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone ERNESTO-12 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 31651
Name ERNESTO-12
Glide number: TC-2012-000133-BLZ
From - To 03 Aug - 10 Aug
Exposed countries Belize, Mexico
Exposed population 230 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 148 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 1.9 m (08 Aug 20:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Belize)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 56 km/h 1.9 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Hurricane hits coast of Mexico 8/14/2012 7:10:00 AM.

HURRICANE Ernesto has come ashore on Mexico's Caribbean coast near the border with Belize, after hundreds of tourists left beach resorts and fishermen abandoned low-lying villages to avoid the ...
Ernesto death toll in Mexico reaches 11 8/14/2012 1:57:00 AM.

Ernesto killed 11 people after hitting Mexico as a hurricane, Mexican authorities said as the storm death toll continued to rise. Ernesto dissipated on Friday over the country’s mountainous southern regions, although heavy rain associated w
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Freshwater Layers in Seas Found to Speed Up Hurricanes 8/14/2012 12:24:00 AM.

Earth’s most powerful storms sometimes called hurricanes or typhoons but collectively known to scientists as tropical cyclones remain dangerously unpredictable. And what’s most mysterious about tropical cyclones is what we would most like t
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),