Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for JOALANE-15
Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000159
Name JOALANE-15
From - To 07 Apr - 12 Apr
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 259 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability -- ()

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 101 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.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 30 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Expect quiet hurricane season, researchers sayTue, 14 Apr 2015 13:10:00 +0200.

The 2015 Atlantic hurricane season will be significantly less active than the overall averages from 1950 to the present, according to researchers at North Carolina State University. The 2015 season should see four to six named storms formi
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Rodrigues: l’alerte cyclonique levée, l’avis de fortes houles et vents ... Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:42:00 +0200.

Le cyclone tropical Joalane est passé à son point le plus rapproché de Rodrigues à la mi-journée et s’éloigne graduellement. » La station météorologique de Vacoas a ainsi levée toute alerte cyclonique cet après-midi, vendredi 10 avril. A 16
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MÉTÉO : Joalane demeure une menace pour RodriguesFri, 10 Apr 2015 16:02:00 +0200.

Dans son dernier bulletin de cyclone émis à la mi-journée, ce vendredi, le 8e pour Rodrigues (toujours en Class 1) depuis deux jours, le service métérologique de Vacoas indique que vu sa position et son intensité, le cyclone tropical Joalan
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Cyclone tropical Joalane: les vols vers Rodrigues annulésFri, 10 Apr 2015 12:11:00 +0200.

Des averses et des orages s’abattent sur Rodrigues ce vendredi 10 avril alors que le cyclone tropical Joalane devrait passer à son point le plus proche, soit à l’est-nord-est, de l’île dans le courant de la journée. L’alerte 1 a ainsi été m
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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), INFORM (2),