Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for JONGDARI-18
in Japan

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000473
Name JONGDARI-18
From - To 22 Jul - 02 Aug
Exposed countries Japan
Exposed population 17.7 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 213 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 0.8 m (29 Jul 20:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Japan)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 46 km/h 2.4 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 66 km/h 0.8 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 106 km/h 1 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 63 km/h 1 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: 318 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

Sweltering Tokyo braces for approach of Typhoon ShanshanMon, 06 Aug 2018 11:10:00 +0200.

Typhoon Shanshan is set to approach the Tokyo area later this week, bringing heavy winds and strong rains to a region suffering from a sweltering heatwave. Shanshan, the 13th tropical storm of the season, is projected to track over the next
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Sweltering Tokyo Braces for Approach of Typhoon ShanshanMon, 06 Aug 2018 06:26:00 +0200.

Typhoon Shanshan is set to approach the Tokyo area later this week, bringing heavy winds and strong rains to a region suffering from a sweltering heatwave. Shanshan, the 13th tropical storm of the season, is to track over the next two days
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Heavy rain brought by typhoon Jongdari hits JiujiangMon, 06 Aug 2018 04:05:00 +0200.

, E China's Jiangxi. A citizen wades through a flooded street, struggling against a heavy rain brought by Jongdari, the 12th typhoon this year, in Jiujiang City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 4, 2018. (Xinhua/Hu Guolin) A citizen wad
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Heavy rain brought by typhoon Jongdari hits Jiujiang, E China's Jiangx ... Sun, 05 Aug 2018 10:42:00 +0200.

A citizen wades through a flooded street, struggling against a heavy rain brought by Jongdari, the 12th typhoon this year, in Jiujiang City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 4, 2018.

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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),