Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for KENANGA-18
Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000535
Name KENANGA-18
From - To 15 Dec - 22 Dec
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 213 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 65 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 186 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

Cyclones : rien en vue dans les cinq joursMon, 24 Dec 2018 05:31:00 +0100.

On devrait être tranquilles pour les deux réveillons à venir. C'est du moins ce que laisse entendre Météo France dans son bulletin d'hier après-midi : "Il n'y a pas de risque de formation d'un autre système tropical dans les cinq prochains
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Cyclone Cilida Passing Perilously Close To The Island Of MauritiusSat, 22 Dec 2018 21:17:00 +0100.

The first days of summer are underway in the Southern Hemisphere and tropical cyclone season is heating up. We tend to lose focus on the tropics in the United States once cooler weather prevails over the Atlantic Ocean, but tropical cyclone
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Cilida au plus près à 400 km à l'est de La Réunion en fin de nuit proc ... Sat, 22 Dec 2018 04:29:00 +0100.

Simple dépression tropicale mercredi dernier, le cinquième système de la saison 2018 – 2019 était devenu hier un cyclone tropical intense. Hier après-midi à 16h, Cilida évoluait à 675 km au nord – nord-est de La Réunion et se déplaçait vers
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Seeing double: Tropical Cyclone Kenanga same strength as other stormThu, 20 Dec 2018 21:30:00 +0100.

IMAGE: On Dec. 20, the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Kenanga in the Southern Indian Ocean. Kenaga is located east of Tropical... Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth O
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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), INFORM (1), (1),