Event date

Station Name and Establishment year and location

24 hours rainfall (mm)

Rank of the event

Impacts

8 May 2017

Tanga

Latitude: 5˚5' Longitude: 39˚4' Elev: 49 m

316.0

1s

7 deaths, 5 injuries, 100 people left homeless, flooded Mkumbara river and rocks fall destruct roads. (Habari Leo, 10th May 2017; Mtanzania Newspaper, 13th May 2017)

6 May 2019

Pemba

Lat: 5.15

Lon: 39.49

Elev: 24 m

181

7th

Flooding, houses destroyed, infrastructure including road and bridge damaged

15 April 2018

Dar es Salaam

Lat: 6.52

Lon: 39.12

Elev: 53 m

91.3

8th

14 deaths, 9 houses destroyed, over 600 families left homeless and transport lines were shut down due to flooded infrastructure.

Dar es Salaam Zonal Police office, 16th April 2018

17 April 2020

Zanzibar

Lat: 6˚13'

Lon: 39˚13'

Elev: 18 m

202.6

6

Flooding, Destruction of Settlements and infrastructure

27 March 2017

Ilonga

Lat: 6.46

Lon: 37.2

Elev: 502 m

105.4

5th

Settlements destructed and hectors of farm field destructed

28 April 2018

Arusha

Lat: 3˚22'

Lon: 36˚38'

Elev: 1372 m

126.4

4

2 deaths, Roads flooded and transportation difficulties

18 April 2018

Kilimanjaro

Lat: 3.25

Lon: 37.4

Elev: 891 m

85.2

7th

Severe Infrastructure damage, 477 crop field destroyed