Overall Green alert Flood for Kenya
in Kenya

Flood impact summary

Flood Kenya is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID: 1100267
Deaths: 54
Displaced: 17500
Region: Meru, Taita Taveta, Tana River, Uasin Gishu, West Pokot, Meru, West Pokot County, Tana River County
Countries: Kenya
From - To 23 Nov - 23 Nov
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 23-11-2019

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 54 Kenya West Pokot, West Pokot County
missing 46 Kenya West Pokot, West Pokot County
SENDAI Indicator B N Country Location Info
displaced 1000 Kenya Uasin Gishu, Meru, Tana River, Taita Taveta
displaced 6000 Kenya Tana River, Tana River County
displaced 10500 Kenya West Pokot, West Pokot County

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2019-11-16 / 2019-11-30  

Saturday 16/11Sunday 17/11Monday 18/11Tuesday 19/11Wednesday 20/11Thursday 21/11Friday 22/11Saturday 23/11Sunday 24/11Monday 25/11Tuesday 26/11Wednesday 27/11Thursday 28/11Friday 29/11Saturday 30/11

Timeline of revisions

For accessing reports of previous advisories, please click on the advisory number in the table below.

IDAlert ColorPopulation affectedStart DateEnd DateSource
1 54 deaths and 17500 displaced 23 Nov 2019 23 Nov 2019 GLOFAS

Flood polygons

This polygon (translucent blue with a blue border) is drawn by the analysts recording the flood event. It is meant to include all the areas reported as affected, by official source or the media. It does not represent the area actually under water.

Microwave flood detection

Flooded area, as detected in microwaves by the Global Flood Detection System of the JRC, based on NASA TRMM/GPM observations. This system has a rather low resolution (of 5-10km) but is not affected by clouds.
For more details, see http://www.unisdr.org/files/9622_LBNA23303ENC002.pdf.
The areas with a flood signal along the coast are an artefact of the system and should not be considered.

Optical Flood detection

Flooded area as detected in optical wavelengths by NASA/MODIS, known as "MODIS Flood Product". Data are made available by NASA GSFC Flood Mapping Project, http://oas.gsfc.nasa.gov/floodmap/index.html. Resolution of 250m, heavily affected by cloud cover.