Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for WINSTON-16
in Fiji

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000252
Name WINSTON-16
From - To 10 Feb - 24 Feb
Exposed countries Fiji
Exposed population 230 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 296 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge 0.5 m (20 Feb 10:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 74 km/h 0.5 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 480 | About casualties: 34 | Last hour: 0

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Analytical products

Daily Maps:

26/Feb/2016 03:28 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),