Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for LESTER-16
in United States

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000296
Name LESTER-16
From - To 24 Aug - 07 Sep
Exposed countries United States
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 222 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability Low (United States)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 93 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
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 604 | About casualties: 22 | Last hour: 0

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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), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),