Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for GULAB-21/SHAHEEN-21
in Oman

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone GULAB-21/SHAHEEN-21 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000834
Name GULAB-21/SHAHEEN-21
From - To 24 Sep - 03 Oct
Exposed countries Oman
Exposed population 280 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 130 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 1.2 m (29 Sep 15:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Oman)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 102 km/h 1.2 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 158 km/h 0.5 m 591 mm 0.5
GFS 112 km/h 0.8 m 399 mm 0.5
ECMWF 97 km/h 0.7 m 505 mm 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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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 (40), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),