Tropical Cyclone HECTOR-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 24.

• Tropical Cyclone Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 74 km/h)
• from 12/08/2012 03:00 UTC to 17/08/2012 09:00 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

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Known identifiers for this event: ep0812 (jtwcId) EP082012 (noaaId)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 13 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Tropical storm Gordon strengthens in Atlantic
Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:00:00 +0200   CBC (en)

Tropical storm Gordon is nearing hurricane-strength in the Atlantic but it is expected to move away from the United States.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Hurricane Center 

Tropical Storm Gordon Strengthens in Atlantic
Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:16:00 +0200   ABCnews (en)

Tropical Storm Gordon strengthens in Atlantic, near hurricane-strengthen away from the US

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Hurricane Gordon  Hurricane Center 

Gordon to become hurricane, won't hit land
Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:24:00 +0200   upi (en)

MIAMI, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Tropical storm Gordon is expected to become a hurricane by week's end, but will not make landfall, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Thursday.

People and organisations: National Hurricane Center  Bay Times  Hurricane Center 

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), DesInventar (1), SWCB (1),

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