Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for URIAH-16
Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000254
Name URIAH-16
From - To 13 Feb - 19 Feb
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 241 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 120 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 477 | About casualties: 30 | Last hour: 0

Survivors tell their storiesMon, 22 Feb 2016 23:34:00 +0100.

SOME of the most harrowing tales of survival were told in Rakiraki yesterday of homes being uprooted from the floor, and hurricane force winds sweeping terrified and screaming families in the air before dumping them on the ground. Scared an
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El Faro was on Coast Guard list of at-risk vesselsMon, 22 Feb 2016 23:34:00 +0100.

The cargo ship that sank in a hurricane last year was on a Coast Guard list of vessels with the most "potential for risk," a designation that would have triggered more safety inspections. In testimony Monday at an investigative hearing in J
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El Faro was on Coast Guard list of at-risk vesselsMon, 22 Feb 2016 23:31:00 +0100.

The Associated Press. JASON DEAREN The cargo ship that sank in a hurricane last year was on a Coast Guard list of vessels with the most “potential for risk,” a designation that would have triggered more safety inspections. In testimony Mon
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Cyclone Winston: le bilan humain s'aggraveMon, 22 Feb 2016 23:27:00 +0100.

sur les îles Fidji, le plus puissant de l'histoire de l'archipel, continue de faire des victimes. "Le bilan officiel désormais est de 29 morts, huit nouveaux corps ont été retrouvés sur l'île de Koro depuis hier", a annoncé ce soir le porte
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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),