Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for ULA-16
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone ULA-16 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000244
Name ULA-16
From - To 30 Dec - 12 Jan
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population 20 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 231 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 0.2 m (02 Jan 22:00 UTC)
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 65 km/h 0.2 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: 238 | About casualties: 35 | Last hour: 0

Vanuatu: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot ( ... Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:10:00 +0100.

Vanuatu. Severe Tropical Cyclone Ula will start to weaken as it moves south from Vanuatu after spending the past 13 days impacting countries across the Pacific. The cyclone passed close to the southern islands of Vanuatu as a Category 4 sys
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Vanuatu : le cyclone Ula s'éloigne de l'archipelMon, 11 Jan 2016 21:08:00 +0100.

L'alerte est levée : Ula continue sa route vers le sud-ouest, quittant l'archipel du Vanuatu. D'après les premières informations, le cyclone de catégorie 4 (sur une échelle de 5) n'a pas fait de victimes, mais il a endommagé les potagers de
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Vanuatu : le cyclone Ula s'éloigne de l'archipelMon, 11 Jan 2016 06:57:00 +0100.

« Il y a eu de fortes pluies, de très fortes pluies, et des vents puissants pendant la nuit, jusqu'à ce matin, où ça a commencé à se calmer. Pour le moment, on a constaté des dégâts surtout dans les jardins et les potagers. Des bateaux et c
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New Caledonia (France): Cyclone tropical « ULA » : déclenchement de l' ... Sun, 10 Jan 2016 17:49:00 +0100.

Déclenchement de l'alerte cyclonique de niveau 1 pour la commune de Maré ce dimanche 10 janvier 2016 à 17h00, le reste de la Nouvelle-Calédonie demeure en préalerte cyclonique. Situation. A 11h00 locales ce dimanche 10 janvier 2016, le cycl
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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), INFORM (1), (1),