WTPQ40 LIJR 061509 TROPICAL CYCLONE ALERT MESSAGE NUMBER 001 THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC ALERT FROM THE GLOBAL DISASTER ALERTS AND COORDINATION SYSTEM (WWW.GDACS.ORG) **************************************************** * RED ALERT FOR TROPICAL CYCLONE SOUDELOR-15 * **************************************************** SUMMARY TROPICAL CYCLONE SOUDELOR-15 CAN HAVE A HIGH HUMANITARIAN IMPACT BASED ON THE MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WIND SPEED AND THE AFFECTED POPULATION AND THEIR VULNERABILITY. UPDATED: THIS REPORT IS BASED ON ADVISORY NUMBER 29. WIND --------------- -TROPICAL CYCLONE TROPICAL STORM (MAXIMUM WIND SPEED OF 212.96 KM/H) -ON 06 AUG 2015 06:00:00 UTC -POPULATION AFFECTED BY CATEGORY 1 (120 KM/H) WIND SPEEDS OR HIGHER IS 21.7 M -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: HTTP://DMA.GDACS.ORG/SAVED/GDACS/TC/1000191/RAIN_1000191_29.PNG STORM SURGE ------------- THE MAXIMUM STORM SURGE HEIGHT IS 1.9 M IN CHONGWU (CHINA). THIS HEIGHT IS ESTIMATED AT 8/8/2015 2:00:00 PM UTC. DETAILS =========== EVENT TIME LINE ---------------- THE STORM EVOLUTION IS SHOWN IN THE TABLE BELOW. ALERT LEVELS AND POPULATION ESTIMATES ARE RELATED TO THE AREA FROM A POINT TO THE NEXT. ADV. ALERT COL DATE UTC CATEGORY SPEED GUSTS POPULATION LAT/LON (WIND IN KM/H) AFFECTED 2 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) TROPICAL STORM 65 0 N/A 159.10/13.70 3 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) TROPICAL STORM 75 0 N/A 158.60/13.90 4 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) TROPICAL STORM 75 0 N/A 158.40/13.50 5 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) TROPICAL STORM 75 0 N/A 156.50/13.80 6 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) TROPICAL STORM 65 0 N/A 155.70/13.80 7 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) TROPICAL STORM 65 0 N/A 154.90/13.40 8 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) TROPICAL STORM 65 0 N/A 153.20/13.60 9 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) TROPICAL STORM 75 0 N/A 152.20/14.10 10 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) TROPICAL STORM 84 0 N/A 150.80/14.10 11 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) TROPICAL STORM 93 0 N/A 149.80/14.20 12 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) TROPICAL STORM 112 0 80 K 148.30/14.60 13 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 121 0 N/A 146.80/14.80 14 ORANGE 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 168 0 80 K 145.90/15.10 15 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 196 0 N/A 145.00/15.60 16 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 214 0 N/A 144.10/16.20 17 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 196 0 N/A 142.90/16.90 18 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 252 0 N/A 141.80/17.50 19 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 289 0 N/A 140.70/17.80 20 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 289 0 N/A 139.60/18.20 21 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 261 0 N/A 138.30/18.60 22 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 261 0 N/A 137.30/18.80 23 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 242 0 N/A 136.10/19.30 24 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 214 0 N/A 134.90/19.50 25 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 196 0 N/A 133.70/19.80 26 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 186 0 N/A 132.70/20.00 27 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 177 0 N/A 131.50/20.10 28 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 177 214 N/A 130.30/20.40 29 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 168 0 N/A 129.20/20.90 29 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 177 0 N/A 126.90/21.60 29 RED 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 196 0 380 K 124.40/22.40 29 RED 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 214 0 7.1 M 122.20/23.30 29 ORANGE 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) HURRICANE/TYPHOON > 74 MPH 140 0 18.6 M 120.10/24.30 29 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) TROPICAL STORM 84 0 N/A 116.60/26.60 29 GREEN 06 AUG 2015 15:09 (X) TROPICAL DEPRESSION 37 0 N/A 116.20/30.00 ============================================================================================================ LIST OF 10 HEIGHEST STORM SURGE LOCATIONS CALCULATION BASED ON ADVISORY NUMBER 29 OF 06 AUG 2015 06:00:00 (SIMULATION USING 0.5 MINUTE RESOLUTION) ARRIVALTIME (UTC) LOCATION COUNTRY MAX EST. HEIGHT (M) 08 AUG 2015 14:00 CHONGWU CHINA 1.9 08 AUG 2015 14:00 QIAN'AN CHINA 1.9 08 AUG 2015 14:00 HSIAO-TSO CHINA 1.8 08 AUG 2015 14:00 ZHANGBAN CHINA 1.7 08 AUG 2015 15:00 WANGCHUAN CHINA 1.7 08 AUG 2015 14:00 DAWU CHINA 1.7 08 AUG 2015 15:00 FENGWEI CHINA 1.7 08 AUG 2015 14:00 P'U-HSI CHINA 1.5 08 AUG 2015 14:00 ZHONGMEN CHINA 1.5 08 AUG 2015 16:00 DONGSHA CHINA 1.5 08 AUG 2015 16:00 FENGTING CHINA 1.5 THE FULL LIST OF LOCATIONS CAN BE VISUALIZED IN THE GDACS PAGE OF THE EVENT: HTTP://WWW.GDACS.ORG/REPORT.ASPX?EVENTTYPE=TC$AND;EVENTID=1000191$AND;EPISODEID=29 JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE, EUROPEAN COMMISSION (JRC-EC) - OFFICE FOR COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (UN-OCHA) ________________________________________ DISCLAIMER WHILE WE TRY EVERYTHING TO ENSURE ACCURACY, THIS INFORMATION IS PURELY INDICATIVE AND SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ANY DECISION MAKING WITHOUT ALTERNATE SOURCES OF INFORMATION. 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