Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for VARDAH-16
in India

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000331
Name VARDAH-16
From - To 07 Dec - 12 Dec
Exposed countries India
Exposed population 10.3 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 157 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 0.6 m (12 Dec 08:00 UTC)
Vulnerability High (India)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 139 km/h 0.6 m n.a. 2.5
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 (38), (2), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),