ADAM Event 1001147: Category 2 Tropical Cyclone in Papua New Guinea, February 2025

WFP’s Automated Disaster Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) system collected this record of a Category 2 storm event. The data covers a single day, February 22, 2025, with the storm center located at latitude 14.0 and longitude 151.2 near Papua New Guinea. It was last updated in the ADAM system on May 21, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map the storm's geographic footprint based on the provided latitude and longitude coordinates.
• Analyze the intensity and classification of tropical cyclone events in the South Pacific.
• Integrate event data with socio-economic layers for vulnerability and impact modeling as suggested by the ADAM system's purpose.

Strengths

• Data originates from WFP's operational ADAM system, designed for humanitarian emergency analysis.
• Provides precise geospatial coordinates (latitude 14.0, longitude 151.2) for the event's center.
• Has a specific temporal scope for a single-day event on February 22, 2025.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for statistical modeling.

Provenance

Source

WFP Automated Disaster Analysis & Mapping (ADAM)

Collection Method

Collected, analyzed, and mapped by the ADAM system following a sudden onset humanitarian emergency.

Time Range

February 22, 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 22:04:35.872712; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Papua New Guinea region, centered near latitude 14.0, longitude 151.2