Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for KATE-15
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone KATE-15 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000132
Name KATE-15
From - To 25 Dec - 31 Dec
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 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
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 23 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

MÉTÉO—PRÉVISIONS: Beau temps dans l’ensemble pour la nuit de la Saint ... Fri, 02 Jan 2015 00:17:00 +0100.

Si vous avez prévu d’organiser un barbecue ou de réveillonner en plein air, vos projets pour cette soirée du 31 ne risquent pas d’être compromis : la Météo annonce en effet un temps dégagé sur l’ensemble du pays. Les prévisions parlent d’un
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Earthquake off coast shakes Northern CaliforniaThu, 01 Jan 2015 22:46:00 +0100.

25 minutes ago The U.S. Geological Survey has downgraded an earthquake off the coast of Northern California to a magnitude-5.1 shaker. The USGS says the quake was centered in the Pacific Ocean, about 70 miles west of Ferndale, and struck a
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Leurs prédictions pour 2015. Marie-Bernadette : "S'il fait très beau, ... Thu, 01 Jan 2015 07:19:00 +0100.

M�t�o et catastrophes naturelles. Trois cyclones devraient s’abattre sur l’�le en d�but d’ann�e : un gros et deux moyens. Ils apporteront beaucoup de pluie, avec de l’orage et des �clairs, mais ne feront pas trop de d�g�ts. Comme d’habitude
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NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Kate meeting its endWed, 31 Dec 2014 18:17:00 +0100.

NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of Tropical Cyclone Kate in the southern Indian Ocean on Dec. 30 at 04:35 UTC when it was hurricane force. Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclo
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),