Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for CHAN-HOM-15
in Japan, China

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000172
Name CHAN-HOM-15
From - To 30 Jun - 12 Jul
Exposed countries Japan, China
Exposed population 2 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 241 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 2.4 m (11 Jul 11:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Japan)

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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 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 673 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

Weatherwatch Chan-hom typhoon pelts east China and KoreaThu, 16 Jul 2015 01:32:00 +0200.

Weatherwatch: Chan-hom typhoon pelts east China and Korea. The Guardian Thursday 16th July, 2015. was hit by typhoon Chan-hom on Saturday, affecting the Zhejiang province just south of Shanghai, which is one of China's most populous areas.
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Weatherwatch: Chan-hom typhoon pelts east China and KoreaWed, 15 Jul 2015 22:39:00 +0200.

Typhoon Chan-hom creating boisterous waves off South Korea's port city of Busan on 12 July 2015. Photograph: Yonhap/AFP/Getty Images. T he east coast of China was hit by typhoon Chan-hom on Saturday, affecting the Zhejiang province just so
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Don’t fall for fake typhoon announcements 假「颱風假」 民眾別上當Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:33:00 +0200.

AS Typhoon Chan-Hom followed close on the heels of Tropical Storm Linfa, many people were hoping that they could get a typhoon holiday. Typhoon Chan-Hom made its closest approach to Taiwan on Friday last week, but a fake holiday announcemen
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File takaful claims nowWed, 15 Jul 2015 03:08:00 +0200.

PARTICIPANTS of Takaful Brunei Am Sdn Bhd’s comprehensive home package takaful scheme should lodge claims for damages by the recent storm as soon as possible so that repairs can be done before Hari Raya, a senior company official said yeste
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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14/Jul/2015 04:39 UTC

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),