Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for LANE-18 in United States from 15 Aug 2018 03:00 UTC to 29 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for LANE-18

in United States

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	TC 1000486
Name	LANE-18
From - To	15 Aug - 29 Aug
Exposed countries	United States
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	259 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability	Low (United States)

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS JTWC	46 km/h	0 m	n.a.	0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	181 km/h	0 m	n.a.	0.5
GFS	152 km/h	0.1 m	n.a.	0.5
ECMWF	n.a	0.4 m	n.a.	0.5

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