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Southwest monsoon-2011: Daily flood situation report 18 Jul 2011

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SITREP NO-48/2011

1700 hours

No.32-20/2011-NDM-I

Ministry of Home Affairs

(Disaster Management Division)

RAINFALL/FLOOD SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY

 Moderate to heavy rainfall with isolated very heavy falls have been reported in some parts of Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karala, Haryana, Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh and Gujarat.

  Indian Meteorological Department (Major features of weather forecast)

 Widespread rain/thundershowers would occur along west coast and over northeast India.

 Fairly widespread rain/thundershowers would occur over central & eastIndia, western Himalayan region and Haryana during next 24 hours and decrease thereafter.

 Fairly widespread rain/ thundershowers would occur over Uttar Pradesh, east Rajasthan, Gujarat state, interior Maharashtra and interior Karnataka.

 Scattered rainfall would occur over rest parts of the country outside west Rajasthan, Rayalaseema and Tamilnadu where it will be isolated.

CENTRAL WATER COMMISSION (daily water levels and forecasts for level forecast sites)

 There are 08 Moderate flood situation sites (Assam-03, Uttar Pradesh-01 and Bihar-04) in the country on 18.07.2011.

DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE FORCE (NDRF)

 16 teams consisting of 544 personnel of NDRF have been deployed in Assam - (5), Andhra Pradesh – (2), J&K – (2), Kerala – (1), Uttar Pradesh (1) and Bihar (5).