Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for ROANU-16
in India, Myanmar, Bangladesh

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000262
Name ROANU-16
From - To 18 May - 21 May
Exposed countries India, Myanmar, Bangladesh
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 102 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 2.7 m (21 May 09:00 UTC)
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 83 km/h 2.7 m n.a. 1.5
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

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National Hurricane Center tracking storms near BahamasWed, 25 May 2016 05:10:00 +0200.

The National Hurricane Center has begun tracking an area of showers and thunderstorms near the Bahamas that has a 30 percent chance of forming a within the next five days. tropical depression "An area of showers and thunderstorms over the w
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2016 storm namesWed, 25 May 2016 04:53:00 +0200.

Here are the storm names selected by the National Hurricane Center. A storm is named once it reaches tropical storm status. Alex. Bonnie. Colin. Danielle. Earl. Fiona. Gaston. Hermine. Igor. Julia. Karl. Lisa. Matthew. Nicole. Otto. Paula.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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Daily Maps:

23/May/2016 02:41 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), INFORM (1), (1),