"Spain – Floods in South East Leave 6 Dead, Thousands Evacuated 16 SEPTEMBER, 2019 BY FLOODLIST NEWS IN EUROPE, NEWS At least 6 people have now died as a result of the severe weather in south-eastern Spain.
Torrential rainfall began on 11 September, 2019. By 13 September some areas of Valencia region had seen over 400mm of rain. Rivers broke their banks in several locations, in particular Ontinyent, Orihuela and Moixent. The severe weather has continued since then and media report that 6 people have now died and 3,500 evacuated, including 2,000 residents of the town of Santomera in Murcia as a precaution due to a controlled release from a local dam.
Roads and schools have been closed as well as Murcia and Almeria airports. Fatalities were reported in Caudete in Albacete province, Almería, La Jámula in Granada and 2 people died in Orihuela. The most affected areas include Valencia, Alicante, Murcia, Albacete, Almería and Malaga provinces along with parts of the Balearic Islands. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visited some of the affected areas on 14 September. More than 1,100 military personnel were deployed to assist flood-hit communities." Quoted from Flood List.
Results from the NASA-supported Global Flood Monitoring System (GFMS) at ESSIC, University of Maryland. Date and UTC time is shown. This is flooding as modeled from input precipitation data and topography.
Red is all mapped flooding from this event. Darker Red is mapped flooding from non-DFO sources. Blue is a reference normal water extent. Light gray is all previously mapped flooding, since 1999. See also the DFO Web Map Server. Over the course of the event, remote sensing data are combined to show all flooded areas. A larger scale geotif version and flood and reference water GIS files are located here. Click on colored dots for access to River Watch results.
Last update of this map: September 16, 2019.
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