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
Contributors
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en
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
Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation CEMS Emergency Management Copernicus EMS EMSR311 Mapping Rapid Mapping Copernicus Copernicus Service Storm Copernicus Emergency Management Service United States USA Emergency
Data access
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 |
|---|---|
| GML | <gml:Envelope srsName="http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84"><gml:lowerCorner>-81.188888956 31.7729123436</gml:lowerCorner><gml:upperCorner>-75.9059209831137 37.8838424853353</gml:upperCorner></gml:Envelope> |
| GEO | POLYGON((-81.188888956 37.883842485335,-75.905920983114 37.883842485335,-75.905920983114 31.7729123436,-81.188888956 31.7729123436,-81.188888956 37.883842485335)) |
| GEO | {"type":"Polygon","crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},"coordinates":[[[-81.188888956,37.8838424853353],[-75.9059209831137,37.8838424853353],[-75.9059209831137,31.7729123436],[-81.188888956,31.7729123436],[-81.188888956,37.8838424853353]]]} |
Lineage information
No additional information
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-04-23
- 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
- Popularity
-