Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for SIMON-14
in Mexico

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000101
Name SIMON-14
From - To 02 Oct - 08 Oct
Exposed countries Mexico
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 212 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 0.2 m (07 Oct 16:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 56 km/h 0 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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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),