Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for NILOFAR-14
Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000122
Name NILOFAR-14
From - To 26 Oct - 30 Oct
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 232 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability -- ()

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 64 km/h 0.4 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 311 | About casualties: 91 | Last hour: 0

Disaster preparedness in India and Pakistan' non-existent'Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:53:00 +0100.

From a "severe tropical cyclone," Nilofar abated to "severe" by Friday, October 31. The Arabian Sea storm is moving north-eastwards towards the western Indian state of Gujarat and the southern coastline of Pakistan with a wind speed of 70-8
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Nilofar won’t even ‘touch’ KarachiThu, 30 Oct 2014 20:00:00 +0100.

KARACHI - Pakistan Meteorological Department has claimed that Karachi is out of danger from the threat of tropical cyclone Nilofar as it was weakening gradually and is expected to move towards Indian coastal belt after covering a distance o
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Drains clogged as cyclone approachesWed, 29 Oct 2014 22:37:00 +0100.

KARACHI: Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Khan Durani faced a lot of flak for making light of Cyclone Nilofar in an assembly session, but the city administration doesn’t seem to be taking the situation very seriously either. Despite direct
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NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Nilofar being affected by wind shearWed, 29 Oct 2014 21:24:00 +0100.

Wind shear has kicked in and has been pushing clouds and showers away from Tropical Cyclone Nilofar's center. NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image that showed the effects of the shear on Oct. 29.

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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), INFORM (2),