Overall Green alert Flood for Sudan
in Sudan

Flood impact summary

Flood Sudan is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID: 1100119
Deaths: 78
Displaced: -
Region: Central Darfur, Gezira State, Khartoum State, North Darfur State, Red Sea State, Sudan
Countries: Sudan
From - To 08 Aug - 16 Aug
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.

Impact Assessement as of 08-08-2019

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 59 Sudan Sudan
death 19 Sudan Sudan
SENDAI Indicator B N Country Location Info
affected 245000 Sudan Central Darfur, Gezira State, Khartoum State, North Darfur State, Red Sea State
affected - Sudan Central Darfur, Gezira State, Khartoum State, North Darfur State, Red Sea State
injured 89 Sudan Central Darfur, Gezira State, Khartoum State, North Darfur State, Red Sea State
SENDAI Indicator C N Country Location Info
houses damaged 16000 Sudan Sudan
houses damaged 65000 Sudan Sudan
houses destroyed 32000 Sudan Central Darfur, Gezira State, Khartoum State, North Darfur State, Red Sea State

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2019-08-01 / 2019-08-23  

Thursday 01/08Friday 02/08Saturday 03/08Sunday 04/08Monday 05/08Tuesday 06/08Wednesday 07/08Thursday 08/08Friday 09/08Saturday 10/08Sunday 11/08Monday 12/08Tuesday 13/08Wednesday 14/08Thursday 15/08Friday 16/08Saturday 17/08Sunday 18/08Monday 19/08Tuesday 20/08Wednesday 21/08Thursday 22/08Friday 23/08

Timeline of revisions

For accessing reports of previous advisories, please click on the advisory number in the table below.

IDAlert ColorPopulation affectedStart DateEnd DateSource
1 59 deaths 08 Aug 2019 16 Aug 2019 GLOFAS
2 19 deaths 08 Aug 2019 16 Aug 2019 GLOFAS

Flood polygons

This polygon (translucent blue with a blue border) is drawn by the analysts recording the flood event. It is meant to include all the areas reported as affected, by official source or the media. It does not represent the area actually under water.

Microwave flood detection

Flooded area, as detected in microwaves by the Global Flood Detection System of the JRC, based on NASA TRMM/GPM observations. This system has a rather low resolution (of 5-10km) but is not affected by clouds.
For more details, see http://www.unisdr.org/files/9622_LBNA23303ENC002.pdf.
The areas with a flood signal along the coast are an artefact of the system and should not be considered.

Optical Flood detection

Flooded area as detected in optical wavelengths by NASA/MODIS, known as "MODIS Flood Product". Data are made available by NASA GSFC Flood Mapping Project, http://oas.gsfc.nasa.gov/floodmap/index.html. Resolution of 250m, heavily affected by cloud cover.