The State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) maintained telephone contact with emergencies of the Generalitat Valenciana during the morning of Tuesday, October 29, Dana catastrophic day, to inform the alerts issued by the storm. At least, until noon, when the red alert had been active in the province of Valencia and the agency had been warning since Sunday 27 on what was to come.
«In principle we are not going to dizzy with more notices. Those in the morning have been confirmed, but we have not made changes, except I think something maritime, ”says an Aemet technician to another emergency in the audio of a conversation, held at 12.05 hours, to which he has had access ABC. “I know it has been a bit jaleo, we have been going up to orange, red … We are now going to study why we have been broadcast on scale and not everything together,” he adds. “The maximum rainfall will go north and, above all, inward,” says Aemet.
«He also told us the 112 that you were trying to contact us and the calls did not enter well. It is true that we have problems now with telephone communications», Recognizes the employee of the Autonomous Administration.
In that line, a few minutes before the aforementioned conversation, at 11.48, the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazónhe argued in a press conference that, according to the forecast, the storm moved to the Serranía de Cuenca so it was expected that “around 18 hours” would decrease “its intensity throughout the rest of the Valencian Community.”
The video with that extract was broadcast on the social networks of the regional president and subsequently erased. Mazón admitted in his monographic appearance on the Dana in the Valencian courts that withdraw it “was a mistake.” “It was intended to eliminate information that, as the situation had evolved, could be confusing having become obsolete,” he justified.
A few minutes before the statements of Mazón, the Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, had affirmed that “the forecast of this red alert is, in principle, in principle, Until six in the afternoon. That does not prevent it can be lengthened, because the forecast is that there is rain throughout the day ».
At 11.52, on the television of A Punt, the Chief of Climatology of Aemet in the Valencian Community, José Ángel Núñez, pointed out that the storm was going to move north, but launched a warning: «In the coastline there is not raining and that can make you trust and take unnecessary risks. These cold drop situations like the ones we are seeing today are the most dangerous because when it rains in mountains and mountains, All rivers, ramblas and ravines come very grown in areas where it is not raining And we can minimize the risk »
“In principle the notices end at six in the afternoon, but in these situations you have to be informed,” Núñez settled. In fact, Aemet extended the maximum notice – red – beyond that time.
Changes in the meteorological situation
A report From the State Agency on Catastrophic Dana, dated December 23, chronologically shows all the notices that were activated throughout the day, which explains the “dizziness” referred to by Aemet’s worker.
«On the 29th at 06:36, the southern coastal warnings rose to 50 mm orange in one hour and 140 mm in 12 hours. At 07:36 hours observed red level were issued in southern coast for accumulated 90 mm in an hour and 180 mm in twelve hours, valid until 12:00 (oranges from this time). At 7:52 a.m., the North -to -Orange 40 mm North -Orange notices were raised in an hour and 140 mm in twelve hours, valid until 3:00 p.m. and then continuing as yellow, ”he says.
And this chronological story contains more information with profusion of data from these characteristics. «At 8:59, the accumulated in the north to 60 mm was raised in an hour. At 09:41 hours The notices were raised to red of North and Interior Litoral Norte with accumulated 90 mm in one hour and 180 mm in twelve hours, until 6:00 p.m. At 4:24 p.m. a new red level notice was issued in South Coast due to accumulation of 90 mm in one hour, and at 5:49 p.m. the red northern coastal notices were extended until 8:00 p.m. At 7:47 p.m. the accumulated of the red notice was increased in this area at 200 mm in twelve hours, and its duration was extended until 10:00 p.m. ”he says.
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