Digitized flood location dataset during cyclone Amphan from newspaper survey

A dataset of inundation location, digitized and geotagged from newspaper reports during cyclone Amphan over Bengal delta. Description of columns: 1. District: Location name at 2nd administrative level 2. Upazila: Location name at 3rd administrative level 3. Location: Location name 4. Lon: Longitude 5. Lat: Latitude 6. Type: Type of flood - Flood or Inundation 7. Mechanism: Type of flood/inundation mechanism. Breach (Embankment breaching), Hightide (Unembanked low-land), Overtopping (Embankment overflow) 8. Source: Source newspaper name. 9. Date: Corresponding date of the publishing of the news. <strong>Acknowledgement:</strong> CNES (through the TOSCA project BANDINO) and Embassy of France in Bangladesh for financial support. Also support from French research agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche; ANR) under the DELTA project (ANR-17-CE03-0001).