Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for NORA-18
in Australia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000443
Name NORA-18
From - To 22 Mar - 25 Mar
Exposed countries Australia
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 241 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 1.2 m (24 Mar 17:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Australia)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 93 km/h 1.2 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 84 km/h 0.4 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 62 km/h 1.2 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF n.a 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: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Power, sewage cut: Towns devastated by cycloneSun, 25 Mar 2018 22:08:00 +0200.

TROPICAL Cyclone Nora is continuing to wallop north Queensland with torrential rain and strong winds despite being downgraded to a tropical low late on Sunday. Forecasters warned the worst was yet to come for some communities as the low pre
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MIL-OSI Australia: 25/10:51 EST Tropical Cyclone Advice for TC NoraSun, 25 Mar 2018 03:49:00 +0200.

Source: Australia Bureau of Meteorology. IDQ20023. Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Queensland Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre. Media: The Standard Emergency Warning Signal should NOT be used with this warning. TOP PRIORITY FOR I
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NASA Sees Tropical Cyclone Nora Become a HurricaneFri, 23 Mar 2018 19:18:00 +0100.

NASA satellite imagery showed that Tropical Cyclone Nora developed an eye as it strengthened into a hurricane north of Australia. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of the storm, formerly named Tropica
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NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Nora become a hurricaneFri, 23 Mar 2018 17:09:00 +0100.

IMAGE: On March 23 at 12:36 a.m. EDT (0436 UTC) a visible image of Tropical Storm Nora was acquired from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite as it continued... Credit: Credits: NOAA/NASA Rapid Response Team. NASA sa
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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),