Typhoon Winnie - Aug 1997 Updates

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), Guam worked very hard in 1997 to improve its data management processes. Our goal is to get the raw environmental data inhouse, processed,...

Section 2 TROPICAL CYCLONE OVERVIEW FOR 1997 In 1997, there were 31* tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific and the adjacent seas bounded by the equator, 45oN, 100oE and 180o. Compared with...

DPRK Situation Report U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID) 2 Dec. 1997 U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID) BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN...

SPECIAL REPORT 3.2 Area cultivated 3.3 Yields 3.4 Maize production 3.5 Rice production The estimate of cereal production under the scenarios outlined above is summarised in table 4. 3.7 Livestock 4.1...

China Typhoon Winnie - ASCN71 Appeal Target : US$ 100,000 Geneva, September 22, 1997 Dear Friends, Typhoon Winnie which made landfall on August 18 night, affected 30 million people in the provinces...

Situation Update A clearer picture is emerging of the food crisis in North Korea, with eyewitness accounts relating a grim prognosis for the coming harvests while attesting that international food...

FAO and the World Food Programme expressed "very serious alarm" September 12 over food shortages in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, where drought and a destructive typhoon will again...

September 12, 1997 Background Further evidence emerging last week from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) leaves little doubt that the nation faces a significant food crisis with...

Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 37 of 1997 Date: 12 September 1997 This report includes: A) Democratic People's Republic of Korea B) Southern Africa: El Nino Watch...

1. OVERVIEW Against the backdrop of two successive years of floods in 1995 and 1996, this summer brought not only devastating drought throughout the country, but also a destructive typhoon, which...

ROME - The World Food Programme has organized an emergency food-for-work project to help North Korea rapidly repair dikes destroyed by a tidal wave last mounth during Typhoon Winnie, WFP said today...

Background The alarming food shortages in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) has led to an international humanitarian relief effort, in which CARE USA and four other aid agencies...

Weekly News Winnie, the worst typhoon to hit Taiwan and China in the past decade, has left more than 250 people dead and some 3,000 injured. Between 17 and 19 August, the typhoon hit Taiwan,...

Dear Friends, Further to our Alert of 21 August, reports now indicate that in addition to the Zhejiang Province, the Provinces of Fujian, Jiangsu and Shandong have also been seriously affected by the...

BEIJING (Reuter) - Typhoon Zita killed seven people and injured 349 when it battered China's southern province of Guangdong last week, leaving thousands homeless, local officials said on Monday. The...

The Philippines - Typhoon Winnie DHA-Geneva Situation Report No. 1 General situation 1. According to the UNDP/DHA Resident Representative in Manila, on 18 August 1997, fringes of Typhoon Winnie...

The Disaster Super Typhoon Winnie, recognised as the worst typhoon to hit China and Taiwan in the past decade, caused the death of more than 250 people and injured over 3000 when it passed Taiwan and...