Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for CRISTOBAL-14 in Bahamas from 24 Aug 2014 15:00 UTC to 29 Aug 2014 15:00 UTC

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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)

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
JRC	n.a	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.

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