Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for JOYCE-18
in Australia

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone JOYCE-18 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000431
Name JOYCE-18
From - To 09 Jan - 12 Jan
Exposed countries Australia
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 139 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 0.9 m (11 Jan 02:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Australia)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 83 km/h 1 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 67 km/h 0.4 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 66 km/h 1.4 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 62 km/h 0.4 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: 320 | About casualties: 81 | Last hour: 0

Feed aggregatorTue, 16 Jan 2018 05:13:00 +0100.

A new Tropical Cyclone named BERGUITTA formed over the Indian Ocean and started moving south-west, strengthening. On 15 January at 0.00 UTC its centre was located 200 km north of Rodrigues island (Mauritius) and it had maximum sustained win
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Tropical Cyclone Joyce Makes Landfall on Australia's Pilbara CoastMon, 15 Jan 2018 17:42:00 +0100.

NOAA's JPSS-1 satellite provided a visible image of the tropical storm after it made landfall along the Pilbara Coast in the northwestern part of Western Australia. On Jan. 12, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABM) posted warnings from
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Tropical Cyclone Joyce Makes Landfall on Australia's Pilbara CoastSat, 13 Jan 2018 04:04:00 +0100.

NOAA's JPSS-1 satellite provided a visible image of the tropical storm after it made landfall along the Pilbara Coast in the northwestern part of Western Australia. On Jan. 12, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABM) posted warnings from
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Signalement : le cyclone tropical JoyceFri, 12 Jan 2018 07:33:00 +0100.

– Source: Republic of France – Foreign Affairs in French – Press Release/Statement. Headline: Signalement : le cyclone tropical Joyce. Signalement : le cyclone tropical Joyce de catégorie 1 (vent de 75 km/h avec rafales allant jusqu’à 100 k
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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),