Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for CRISTOBAL-14
in Bahamas

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 47478
Name CRISTOBAL-14
From - To 24 Aug - 29 Aug
Exposed countries Bahamas
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 148 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 0.5 m (27 Aug 15:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (The Bahamas)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 121 km/h 0.5 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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),