Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for ROKE-17
in China

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000376
Name ROKE-17
From - To 21 Jul - 23 Jul
Exposed countries China
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 83 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge n.a.
Vulnerability Medium (China)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 56 km/h n.a. n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 78 km/h 0.4 m n.a. 0.5
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF n.a 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 51 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Viet Nam: China, Vietnam - Tropical Cyclones SONCA and ROKE (GDACS, JT ... Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:53:00 +0200.

Tropical Cyclone SONCA is moving west-northwest over the South China Sea, toward central-northern Vietnam, as a Tropical Storm. It may pass south of Hainan island on 24 July morning (UTC) as a Tropical Storm. Heavy rain may affect several a
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Taiwan might not see its first tropical storm of the season after allMon, 24 Jul 2017 14:32:00 +0200.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — A depression near the Philippines earlier forecast to become the first tropical storm to affect Taiwan this typhoon season might not do so after all, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Monday. The bureau had said Sunday
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Korea braces for typhoon NoruMon, 24 Jul 2017 10:52:00 +0200.

By Ko Dong-hwan Korea is bracing for more heavy rain as typhoon Noru moves closer. The "strong" typhoon, 1,600 kilometers southeast of Tokyo and heading northeast with 970 hectopascal pressure as of 3 p.m. Monday, could change course to wes
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China braces for Typhoon RokeSun, 23 Jul 2017 17:04:00 +0200.

China's Guangdong Province is bracing for Typhoon Roke which made landfall in coastal areas of this morning. Hong Kong Over 40,000 fishing boats have returned to port while 13,530 people working at sea farms along the coast of Guangdong hav
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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),