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Hurricane Florence over USA East coast (2018-09-11)

Collection: CEMS-RM : CEMS Rapid Mapping 

Description


Activation time (UTC): 2018-09-11 12:00:00
Event time (UTC): 2018-09-14 12:00:00
Event type: Storm (Tropical cyclone, hurricane, typhoon)

Activation reason:
Hurricane Florence is threatening the Southeastern United States and the U.S. Mid-Atlantic states. While the storm is progressing along a steady west-northwest trajectory, the governors of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland and the mayor of Washington, D.C. declared a state of emergency. The states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia also issued mandatory evacuation orders for their coastal communities. At this moment, the hurricane is expected to make landfall early morning on 14th Sept.

Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 24
Grading products: 0

Copernicus Emergency Management Service - Mapping is a service funded by European Commission aimed at providing actors in the management of natural and man-made disasters, in particular Civil Protection Authorities and Humanitarian Aid actors, with mapping products based on satellite imagery.

Contact

Email
jrc-ems-rapidmapping (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2018): Hurricane Florence over USA East coast (2018-09-11). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/a0529e33-f5ca-4575-9c18-90224d539eb1

Keywords

CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus EMS Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus Service Emergency Emergency Management EMSR311 Rapid Mapping Storm United States USA Mapping

Data access

Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR311]: Hurricane Florence over USA East coast (2018-09-11)
Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice 
Access conditions
No limitations 
URL 

  • All maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant vector data (SHP, KML) as well.

Spatial coverage

Type Value
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WKT 
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WKT 
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Lineage information

No additional information

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2021-04-19
Modified date
2021-04-19
Issued date
2018-09-11
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR311 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/a0529e33-f5ca-4575-9c18-90224d539eb1
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