Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for QUANG-15
in Australia

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone QUANG-15 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000161
Name QUANG-15
From - To 29 Apr - 01 May
Exposed countries Australia
Exposed population 3 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 212 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 1.1 m (01 May 07:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Australia)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 84 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
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.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),