2018-08-25 Flood in Taiwan on 25 August, 2018

Flood in Taiwan on 25 Aug. 2018

  • Disaster Type: Flood
  • Country: Taiwan
  • Occurrence Date (UTC):
  • SA activation Date(UTC): 25 August, 2018
  • Requester: National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL) 
  • Escalation to the International Charter:
  • GLIDE Number:

Disaster Situation

A tropical depression has been dumping torrential rain in central and southern Taiwan since 23th, with some districts receiving close to 1,000 millimetres (39 inches) of rainfall. Chiayi City has reported 631.5 mm of rain. Tainan City has reported 579.0 mm of rain. Yunlin has reported 49.5 mm of rain. All of these rainfall totals started to accumulate on Thursday, local time. More than 6,000 people were evacuated with more than 1,100 still in shelters on Saturday morning, officials said.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/6-dead-thousands-evacuated-in-taiwan-floods

Product

 AIT 

2018-08-28

Flooding in Yulin and Chiayi, Taiwan

2018-08-28

Flooding in Chiayi and Tainan, Taiwan

2018-08-31

FLOODING IN CHIAYI AND TAINAN, TAIWAN

2018-08-31

FLOODING IN YULIN AND CHIAYI, TAIWAN

 JAXA 

2018-08-25

ALOS-2 PALSAR-2, RGB color composite image,P033 F3110, P137 F460,HH

2018-08-30

ALOS-2 PALSAR-2, RGB color composite image,P137 F460,A,HH,28.2

Satellite Image

 GISTDA 

2018-09-02

THEOS MS SCENE T1 M 2018/09/02 02:37:20.4 0299-0302 1428

2018-09-02

THEOS PAN SCENE T1 P 2018/09/02 02:37:21.7 0299-0303 0

2018-09-02

THEOS MS SCENE T1 M 2018/09/02 02:37:26.2 0299-0302 4120

2018-09-02

THEOS PAN SCENE T1 P 2018/09/02 02:37:15.5 0299-0302 1711

2018-09-02

THEOS PAN SCENE T1 P 2018/09/02 02:37:18.4 0299-0303 0

2018-09-02

THEOS PAN SCENE T1 P 2018/09/02 02:37:25.1 0299-0303 0

2018-09-02

THEOS PAN SCENE T1 P 2018/09/02 02:37:28.5 0299-0304 0

2018-09-02

THEOS PAN SCENE T1 P 2018/09/02 02:37:30.3 0299-0304 5863

 ISRO 

2018-08-28

Resourcesat-2 AWiFS data as observed on Aug 28,2018