Tropical Storm Event in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, April 2026

Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands were impacted by a tropical storm from April 4 to April 10, 2026. The World Food Programme's Automated Disaster Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) system collected and analyzed geospatial and socio-economic information following this sudden-onset emergency. The dataset's last recorded update was on May 21, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map the storm's path and intensity based on the recorded center coordinates and date range.
• Analyze potential socio-economic impacts for emergency planning based on the described information types.
• Model vulnerability and exposure for future disaster risk reduction based on the geospatial analysis framework.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a specific, time-bound event from April 4-10, 2026.
• Includes precise geographic coordinates for the storm's center (latitude -8.4, longitude 154.3).
• Produced by an operational UN system (WFP ADAM) for humanitarian analysis.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

WFP Automated Disaster Analysis & Mapping (ADAM)

Collection Method

Collected, analyzed, and mapped by an automated system following a sudden-onset humanitarian emergency.

Time Range

Event period: Apr 04 2026 - Apr 10 2026

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 22:10:16.667347; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea