Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for NORU-17
in Japan

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone NORU-17 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000372
Name NORU-17
From - To 20 Jul - 08 Aug
Exposed countries Japan
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 269 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge 0.4 m (29 Jul 18:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Japan)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 46 km/h 1.4 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 175 km/h 0.8 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 67 km/h 0.6 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 70 km/h 3.9 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 431 | About casualties: 69 | Last hour: 0

Tropical storm Noru batters Honshu bringing torrential rainWed, 09 Aug 2017 05:43:00 +0200.

A tropical storm is moving northeast along the coast of Japan’s main island of Honshu, bringing heavy rain to wide areas. Two people have died and over 50 others have been injured. The Ane River overflowed in Shiga Prefecture in the early h
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China landslide kills 24 as typhoon lashes JapanWed, 09 Aug 2017 05:11:00 +0200.

BEIJING/TOKYO: A landslide triggered by heavy rain killed at least 24 people in China’s mountainous southwestern province of Sichuan on Tuesday, state media reported. Extreme weather this summer has triggered a series of landslides and floo
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NASA Sees Typhoon Noru Over Southern JapanWed, 09 Aug 2017 04:50:00 +0200.

Typhoon Noru was moving over Honshu, Japan when NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead on August 7. Noru made landfall in the central prefecture of Wakayama early in the day. The Aqua satellite passed over Japan on August 7 at 12:25 a.m. EDT
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Weather-related disasters are exponentially increasingWed, 09 Aug 2017 00:53:00 +0200.

Weather-related disasters are exponentially increasing. In fact, two-thirds of Europe could be affected by an extreme weather event by 2100, according to a study published in the Lancet Planetary Health journal on 4 August. In the 72 hours
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2),