Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for OSCAR-12 Off-shore from 04 Oct 2012 03:00 UTC to 05 Oct 2012 09:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for OSCAR-12

Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone OSCAR-12 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 32940
Name	OSCAR-12
From - To	04 Oct - 05 Oct
Exposed countries	Off-shore
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	84 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge	n.a.
Vulnerability	-- ()

GDACS Score

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
JRC	n.a	n.a.	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.

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Latest media headlines

Tropical Storm Oscar forms in eastern Tropical Atlantic: NHC 10/4/2012 5:56:00 AM.

(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Oscar, the fifteenth named storm of the season, has formed in the eastern Tropical Atlantic on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest bulletin. The storm was located about 1,220 miles wes

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Tropical Storm Oscar forms in eastern Tropical Atlantic: NHC 10/4/2012 5:52:00 AM.

(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Oscar, the fifteenth named storm of the season, has formed in the eastern Tropical Atlantic on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest bulletin.

Tropical Storm Oscar likely to form in Atlantic 10/2/2012 9:20:00 PM.

By Miguel Llanos, NBC News A tropical storm is likely to form in the Atlantic Ocean as the system moves west-northwest towards the Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday ...

Tropical Storm Oscar likely to form in Atlantic 10/2/2012 4:03:00 PM.

A tropical storm is likely to form in the Atlantic Ocean as the system heads towards the Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday morning.

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