Overall Orange Tropical Cyclone alert for NILAM-12 in India, Sri Lanka from 30 Oct 2012 12:00 UTC to 31 Oct 2012 12:00 UTC

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Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for NILAM-12

in India, Sri Lanka

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	TC 33400
Name	NILAM-12
Glide number:	TC-2012-000185-IND
From - To	30 Oct - 31 Oct
Exposed countries	India, Sri Lanka
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	101 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge	n.a.
Vulnerability	High (India)

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
JRC	n.a	n.a.	n.a.	1.5
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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Cyclone weakens after displacing 150,000 in India 11/2/2012 1:21:00 AM.

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Tropical storm Nilam struck India at about 09:00 GMT on 31 October. 10/31/2012 3:23:00 PM.

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