Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for DAMREY-17
in Viet Nam, Cambodia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000417
Name DAMREY-17
Glide number: TC-2017-000159-VNM
From - To 01 Nov - 04 Nov
Exposed countries Viet Nam, Cambodia
Exposed population 1.7 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 167 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 1.3 m (04 Nov 01:00 UTC)
Vulnerability High (Vietnam)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 139 km/h 1.3 m n.a. 2.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 133 km/h 1 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 78 km/h 0.6 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 72 km/h 0.5 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: 470 | About casualties: 297 | Last hour: 0

Vietnam turns on taps at dangerously brimming reservoirs days before A ... Tue, 07 Nov 2017 23:13:00 +0100.

By Mai Nguyen. DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) - Vietnam released water from seven dangerously full reservoirs on Tuesday, just days before a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders and after a typhoon killed nearly 70 people. The Steering Committee for D
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Death toll from Vietnam storm climbs to 89 ahead of summitTue, 07 Nov 2017 22:53:00 +0100.

The death toll from a typhoon that struck Vietnam's south-central coast last weekend, causing widespread flooding, has risen to 89 with 18 others still missing, the said today. government Typhoon Damrey caused extensive damage ahead of this
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Les images qu'il ne fallait pas manquer ce mardiTue, 07 Nov 2017 21:33:00 +0100.

DIAPO Les images qu'il ne fallait pas manquer ce mardi Inondations au Vietnam, déplacement de Trump en Corée du Sud et célébration du centenaire de la Révolution d'octobre en Russie : voici les images qu'il ne fallait pas manquer ce mardi.
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Tourists in Vietnam stage a swimming race through flooded city streetsTue, 07 Nov 2017 21:31:00 +0100.

A group of tourists staged a swimming race through the streets of Hue after a massive typhoon flooded parts of central and southern Vietnam. In the video, two tourists can be seen standing in the middle of a street knee-high in flood water.
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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),