Overall Orange Tropical Cyclone alert for ROANU-16 in India, Myanmar, Bangladesh from 18 May 2016 06:00 UTC to 20 May 2016 18:00 UTC

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Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for ROANU-16

in India, Myanmar, Bangladesh

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone ROANU-16 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 1000262
Name	ROANU-16
From - To	18 May - 21 May
Exposed countries	India, Myanmar, Bangladesh
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	102 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge	2.7 m (21 May 12:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	--

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS JTWC	83 km/h	2.7 m	n.a.	1.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	n.a	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
GFS	n.a	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
ECMWF	n.a	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.

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