Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for OCTAVE-19 Off-shore from 17 Oct 2019 21:00 UTC to 19 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for OCTAVE-19

Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone OCTAVE-19 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 1000618
Name	OCTAVE-19
From - To	17 Oct - 19 Oct
Exposed countries	Off-shore
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	74 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge	n.a.
Vulnerability	--

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS JTWC	56 km/h	n.a.	n.a.	0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	104 km/h	0 m	681 mm	0.5
GFS	86 km/h	0 m	388 mm	0.5
ECMWF	58 km/h	0 m	537 mm	0.5

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