Final Event Briefing - TC Elsa - Wind and Storm Surge - Windwards Islands - July 14 2021 | Hurricane Elsa was the fifth tropical cyclone in the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season. On 30 June it developed as Potential Tropical Cyclone Five and on the following day it was upgraded to Tropical Storm Elsa. On July 2 at 1145 UTC Tropical Storm Elsa intensified and became Hurricane Elsa, passing near Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia, spreading hurricane-force winds and tropical-storm-force winds over these countries. |
Final Event Briefing - TC Elsa - Wind and Storm Surge - Haiti and Jamaica - July 14 2021 | Tropical Cyclone Elsa was the fifth tropical cyclone in the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season. |
Event Briefing - Covered Area Rainfall Event - Excess Rainfall - Jamaica - July 14 2021 | Jamaica was affected by Tropical Cyclone Elsa, which caused adverse weather conditions that |
Event Briefing - Covered Area Rainfall Event - Excess Rainfall - Saint Lucia - July 13 2021 | Saint Lucia was affected by Tropical Cyclone Elsa, which caused adverse weather conditions that occurred between 2 July and 3 July, 2021. During this period, Saint Lucia was affected by intense rainfall. |
Preliminary Event Briefing - Earthquake - Nicaragua - July 14 2021 | A magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurred at 23:26:35 (UTC) on 12 July 2021, 15.9 km (9.9 mi) SSE of Pochomil, Nicaragua; 22.6 km (14.1 mi) S of San Rafael del Sur, Nicaragua and 32.9 km (20.4 mi) SW of Diriamba, Nicaragua. Initial estimates from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) located the epicentre of the event at 11.642°N, 86.447°W, and at a depth of 93.8 km |
Event Briefing - Covered Area Rainfall Event - Excess Rainfall - St. Vincent and the Grenadines- July 11 2021 | St. Vincent and the Grenadines was affected by Tropical Cyclone Elsa, which caused adverse weather conditions that occurred between 2 July and 3 July, 2021. During this period, St. Vincent and the Grenadines was affected by heavy rainfall. |
Event Briefing - Covered Area Rainfall Event - Excess Rainfall - Barbados - July 9 2021 | This event briefing describes the impact of rainfall on Barbados, which was associated with a Covered Area Rainfall Event (CARE), starting on 30 June and ending on 2 July 2021. The Rainfall Index Loss (RIL) indicated government losses above the attachment point of Barbados’ Excess Rainfall policy. Final calculations show that a payout of US$1,124,424.00 is due to the Government of Barbados. |
Preliminary Event Briefing - TC Elsa - Wind and Storm Surge - Haiti and Jamaica - July 7 2021 | At the time of writing this report, Barbados, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Haiti and Jamaica were the only CCRIF member countries where wind speeds, computed with the CCRIF SPHERA model, were greater than 39 mph (62.7 km/h) due to Hurricane Elsa. This report describes the performance of the CCRIF models on Haiti and Jamaica due to Elsa. |
Preliminary Event Briefing - TC Elsa - Fisheries Model - Saint Lucia and Grenada - July 6 2021 | On July 2 at 1145 UTC Tropical Storm Elsa intensified and became Hurricane Elsa, passing near Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia, spreading hurricane-force winds and tropical-storm-force winds over these countries. |
Final Event Briefing - Earthquake - Nicaragua - May 23 2021 | A magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred at 22:37:52 (UTC) on 23 May 2021, 63.6 km (39.5 mi) SW of Masachapa, Nicaragua; 74.3 km (46.2 mi) SW of San Rafael del Sur, Nicaragua and 92.2 km (57.3 mi) SW of Diriamba, Nicaragua. Estimates from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) located the epicentre of the event at 11.401°N, 86.944°W, and at a depth of 35.0 km. |