Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for CHABA-16
in Korea, Republic of, Japan

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000315
Name CHABA-16
From - To 28 Sep - 05 Oct
Exposed countries Korea, Republic of, Japan
Exposed population 110 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 250 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 0.5 m (05 Oct 03:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (South Korea)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 93 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.
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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),