Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for RUSTY-13 in Australia from 24 Feb 2013 12:00 UTC to 00:00

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for RUSTY-13

in Australia

24 Feb 2013 00 UTC

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Impact Single TC

Impact based on all weather systems in the area

Impact

Tropical Cyclone RUSTY-13 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed,exposed population and vulnerability.

Meteorological source	GDACS
Exposed countries	Australia
Exposed population	Few people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	212 km/h
Maximum storm surge	1.2 m (27 Feb 09:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Low (Australia)

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	158 km/h	1.2 m	n.a.	0.5
Overall	212 km/h	1.2 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

158 km/h Current Max.

Up to 14000 people in Category 1 strength or higher (see SSHS)

Impact Timeline

Alert	N°	Date (UTC)	Max Winds (km/h)	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Population in Cat 1. or higher	Countries
	1	24 Feb 2013 00:00	158	No people	10 thousand	Australia

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	2/24/2013	Tropical storm	64	no people	no people	-16.7, 118.1
1	2/24/2013 12:00:00 PM	Tropical storm	74	no people	no people	-17.4, 118.4
1	2/25/2013	Tropical storm	93	no people	<1000 people	-18.1, 118.7	Australia
1	2/25/2013 12:00:00 PM	Tropical storm	111	no people	14000 people	-18.7, 118.8	Australia
1	2/26/2013	Category 1	130	14000 people	15000 people	-19.3, 118.8	Australia
1	2/27/2013	Category 2	158	14000 people	15000 people	-20, 118.6	Australia
1	2/28/2013	Tropical storm	111	no people	9700 people	-21.4, 118.4	Australia
1	3/1/2013	Tropical depression	56	no people	no people	-23.3, 118.6	Australia

Tropical disturbance/Weak low pressure area/Remnant low (Vmax < 51 km/h), see WMO

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

Provinces

Country	Region Province
Australia	Western Australia

Populated places

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population
Port Hedland	Western Australia	Australia	City	14000 people
Wedgefield	Western Australia	Australia	City	-
South Hedland	Western Australia	Australia	City	-

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)
Port Hedland	PHE	10	Civ.	Paved	Yes	8200

Ports

Name	LOCODE	Country
Port Hedland	AUPHE	Coral Sea Islands

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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

1.2 m

The maximum Storm surge height is 1.2m in Condon, Australia. This height is estimated for 27 Feb 2013 09:00 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 (13 locations). Calculation based on advisory number 8 of 27 Feb 2013 06:00:00 UTC. (Simulation using 0.5 minute resolution)

Alert	Date (UTC)	Name	Country	Storm surge height (m)
	27 Feb 2013 09:00	Condon	Australia	1.2
	25 Feb 2013 21:00	Thangoo	Australia	0.2
	25 Feb 2013 21:00	Broome	Australia	0.2
	25 Feb 2013 21:00	Waterbank	Australia	0.2
	25 Feb 2013 21:00	Kennedys Cottage	Australia	0.2
	24 Feb 2013 15:00	Derby	Australia	0.2
	25 Feb 2013 08:00	Wickham	Australia	0.2
	25 Feb 2013 08:00	Point Samson	Australia	0.2
	25 Feb 2013 08:00	Cossack	Australia	0.2
	24 Feb 2013 14:00	Pender	Australia	0.1
	25 Feb 2013 17:00	Ah Chong I	Australia	0.1
	25 Feb 2013 17:00	East Lewis I	Australia	0.1
	24 Feb 2013 16:00	Kollan I	Australia	0.1

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