Overall Orange Tropical Cyclone alert for MEKUNU-18 in Oman from 22 May 2018 00:00 UTC to 18:00

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Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for MEKUNU-18

in Oman

22 May 2018 18 UTC

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Impact Single TC

Impact based on all weather systems in the area

Impact

Tropical Cyclone MEKUNU-18 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed,exposed population and vulnerability.

Meteorological source	GDACS
Glide number:	TC-2018-000062-OMN
Exposed countries	Oman
Exposed population	240 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	185 km/h
Maximum storm surge	0.5 m (26 May 07:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Medium (Oman)

GDACS Score

GDACS alert score for Tropical Cyclones is 0.5 (GREEN Alert), 1.5 (ORANGE Alert), 2.5 (RED Alert)
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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
Current	148 km/h	0.5 m	n.a.	0.5
Overall	185 km/h	0.5 m	n.a.	0.5
Maximum winds, storm surge, rainfall (Current: over the next 72 h, Overall: entire TC track) based on GDACS impact

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Wind

148 km/h Current Max.

Up to 8300 people in Category 1 strength or higher (see SSHS)

Impact Timeline

N°	Date (UTC)	Max Winds (km/h)	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Population in Cat 1. or higher	Countries
1	22 May 2018 00:00	157	450 thousand	250 thousand	Oman
2	22 May 2018 06:00	139	490 thousand	220 thousand	Oman
3	22 May 2018 12:00	148	500 thousand	220 thousand	Oman
4	22 May 2018 18:00	148	440 thousand	8 thousand	Oman

Bulletin Timeline

N°	Date (UTC)	Category (SSHS)	Max winds (km/h)	Population in Cat.1 or higher	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Location (lat, lon)	Countries
1	22 May 2018 00:00	Tropical storm	65	no people	no people	9.1, 57.3
2	22 May 2018 06:00	Tropical storm	65	no people	13000 people	9.6, 57.2	Yemen
3	22 May 2018 12:00	Tropical storm	74	no people	42000 people	10.4, 56.9	Yemen
4	22 May 2018 18:00	Tropical storm	83	no people	47000 people	10.7, 56.4	Yemen
4	23 May 2018 06:00	Tropical storm	102	no people	58000 people	11.7, 56.2	Yemen
4	23 May 2018 18:00	Category 1	120	no people	240000 people	12.7, 56	Yemen
4	24 May 2018 06:00	Category 1	130	no people	390000 people	13.9, 55.7	Yemen
4	24 May 2018 18:00	Category 1	139	no people	430000 people	14.7, 55.3	Yemen
4	25 May 2018 18:00	Category 1	148	8400 people	370000 people	16, 54.5	Oman
4	26 May 2018 18:00	Tropical storm	102	no people	330000 people	17.6, 53.1	Yemen
4	27 May 2018 18:00	Tropical depression	56	no people	no people	18.6, 51.2	Yemen

Actual track of the current bulletin

The alert for forecast greater than 3 days is limited to Orange level.

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Exposed population - AoIs

Exposed population in the potential affected countries, provinces and populated places

Countries

Country
Oman

Provinces

Region Province	Country
Zufar	Oman

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

Airports

Name	IATA Code	Elevation (m)	Usage	Runway type	IFR	Runway Length (ft)
Manston		970				0

Ports

Name	LOCODE	Country
Port Raysut	OMRAY	Oman

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Rainfall

Rainfall accumulation of the past 24h, as detected by the Global Precipitation Measurement mission of NASA. For more information, see https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GPM/main/index.html.

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StormSurge

0.5 m

The maximum Storm surge height is 0.5m in Mughsayl, Oman. This height is estimated for 26 May 2018 07:00 UTC .

The JRC has developed an experimental global storm surge model. The calculations are published about 20 minutes after a new advisory is detected by GDACS. The calculations identify the populated places affected by storm surge up to three days in advance, using the forecasted track. When forecasts change, the associated storm surge changes too and alert levels may go up or down. All links, data, statistics and maps refer to the latest available calculation. If the calculation for the last advisory is not completed, the latest available calculation is shown.

Locations affected by Storm surge (21 locations). Calculation based on advisory number 4 of 22 May 2018 18:00:00 UTC. (Simulation using 0.5 minute resolution)

Alert	Date (UTC)	Name	Country	Storm surge height (m)
	26 May 2018 07:00	Mughsayl	Oman	0.5
	26 May 2018 05:00	Araft	Oman	0.5
	26 May 2018 07:00	Salalah	Oman	0.3
	26 May 2018 07:00	Al Kathir	Oman	0.3
	26 May 2018 07:00	Sudh	Oman	0.3
	26 May 2018 07:00	Kharfat	Oman	0.2
	24 May 2018 23:00	Qaysad	Oman	0.2
	24 May 2018 23:00	Sawqirah	Oman	0.2
	24 May 2018 23:00	Lakabi	Oman	0.2
	26 May 2018 07:00	Safqut	Oman	0.2
	25 May 2018 22:00	Duqm	Oman	0.1
	25 May 2018 23:00	As Sirab	Oman	0.1
	26 May 2018 01:00	Marbat	Oman	0.1
	25 May 2018 22:00	Nafun	Oman	0.1
	26 May 2018 09:00	Al Kharifut	Oman	0.1
	24 May 2018 23:00	Lakba	Oman	0.1
	24 May 2018 22:00	Miji	Oman	0.1
	26 May 2018 08:00	Dhalqut	Oman	0.1
	26 May 2018 05:00	Taqah	Oman	0.1
	26 May 2018 01:00	Quwayrah	Oman	0.1
	26 May 2018 00:00	Al Khaluf	Oman	0.1

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