Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for KROSA-13
in Philippines

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone KROSA-13 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 40957
Name KROSA-13
From - To 29 Oct - 04 Nov
Exposed countries Philippines
Exposed population 1 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 185 km/h Category 3
Maximum storm surge 0.6 m (31 Oct 11:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 47 km/h 0.6 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.
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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 (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),