Overall Green alert Flood for Yemen
in Yemen

Flood impact summary

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

GDACS ID: 1100494
Deaths: 14
Displaced: -
Region: Shabwah Governorate, Hadhramaut Governorate
Countries: Yemen
From - To 02 Jun - 02 Jun
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 02-06-2020

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 5 Yemen Shabwah Governorate
death 9 Yemen Hadhramaut Governorate

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2020-05-26 / 2020-06-09  

Tuesday 26/05Wednesday 27/05Thursday 28/05Friday 29/05Saturday 30/05Sunday 31/05Monday 01/06Tuesday 02/06Wednesday 03/06Thursday 04/06Friday 05/06Saturday 06/06Sunday 07/06Monday 08/06Tuesday 09/06

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 14 deaths 02 Jun 2020 02 Jun 2020 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.