Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for NORMA-17
in Mexico

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000402
Name NORMA-17
From - To 14 Sep - 20 Sep
Exposed countries Mexico
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 139 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability Medium (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 56 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 79 km/h 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 118 km/h 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 124 km/h 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: 1035 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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As Hurricane Jose ambles northward in the Atlantic far off the East Coast, an innocuous-sounding system has turned into Tropical Storm Maria in the Caribbean and could well follow Irma's destructive path toward Florida as a full-blown hurri
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A powerful, fast moving hurricane made landfall just east of New Haven on the afternoon of Sept. 21, 1938. The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 struck with little warning and sustained winds in excess of 120 mph placing it in the Categor
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Feed aggregatorWed, 20 Sep 2017 05:15:00 +0200.

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