Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for RICK-15 Off-shore from 18 Nov 2015 16:00 UTC to 22 Nov 2015 21:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for RICK-15

Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	TC 1000237
Name	RICK-15
From - To	18 Nov - 22 Nov
Exposed countries	Off-shore
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	111 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability	--

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS NOAA	n.a	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.

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