Overall Red Tropical Cyclone alert for RAMMASUN-14 in China, Viet Nam, Philippines from 14 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC to 17 Jul 2014 06:00 UTC

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Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for RAMMASUN-14

in China, Viet Nam, Philippines

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone RAMMASUN-14 can have a high humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 46636
Name	RAMMASUN-14
Glide number:	TC-2014-000092-PHL
From - To	14 Jul - 19 Jul
Exposed countries	China, Viet Nam, Philippines
Exposed population	24.5 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	249 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge	3.1 m (18 Jul 15:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	High (China)

GDACS Score

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
JRC	185 km/h	3.1 m	n.a.	2.5
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

Le Vietnam veille de près l'évolution du typhon Rammasun 7/15/2014 6:59:00 PM.

Lors d'une réunion le 15 juillet du Comité central contre les inondations et les tempêtes, le vice-Premier ministre Hoang Trung Hai a demandé à tous les ministères, services compétents et localités de veiller de près le typhon Rammasun qui

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Plus de 33.200 bateaux de pêche informés de l'approche du typhon Ramma.. 7/15/2014 6:59:00 PM.

Au moins 33.208 bateaux de pêche totalisant 125.834 de pêcheurs actuellement en campagne en Mer Orientale ont été prévenus de l'approche du typhon Rammasun afin qu'ils puissent trouver à temps un abri, a annoncé mardi matin le bureau du Com

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Storm surge warnings up over Quezon province, Camarines Sur, NCR 7/15/2014 6:31:00 PM.

At least 20 areas in Quezon province, Camarines Sur and Metro Manila were at risk from storm surges caused by Typhoon Glenda (international name Rammasun), a Tuesday report on GMA News TV's “State of the Nation with Jessica Soho” said. Area

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WATCH: Typhoon Glenda's landfall in Albay 7/15/2014 5:59:00 PM.

Typhoon Glenda (international name Rammasun) made landfall twice over Albay on Tuesday afternoon, according to state weather bureau PAGASA.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Analytical products

Daily Maps: Philippines, China, Vietnam - Tropical Cyclone RAMMASUN

18/Jul/2014 03:44 UTC

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),

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