Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for LANE-18
in United States

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000486
Name LANE-18
From - To 15 Aug - 29 Aug
Exposed countries United States
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 259 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability Low (United States)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 46 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 181 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 152 km/h 0.1 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

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Walmart joins retailers refusing to take back bottled water after Hurr ... Sat, 01 Sep 2018 12:37:00 +0200.

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Tropical Storm Florence forms in the AtlanticSat, 01 Sep 2018 12:06:00 +0200.

(RNN) Tropical Storm Florence has formed in the Atlantic, near the coast of Africa. The National Hurricane Center said early Saturday morning that the storm was 155 miles west of Cabo Verde, an archipelago nation off the west coast of Afric
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Tropical Storm Florence forms in the AtlanticSat, 01 Sep 2018 12:04:00 +0200.

(RNN) Tropical Storm Florence has formed in the Atlantic, near the coast of Africa. The National Hurricane Center said early Saturday morning that the storm was 155 miles west of Cabo Verde, an archipelago nation off the west coast of Afric
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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),