Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for OLWYN-15
in Australia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000151
Name OLWYN-15
From - To 11 Mar - 13 Mar
Exposed countries Australia
Exposed population 60 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 158 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 2.1 m (12 Mar 17:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Australia)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 121 km/h 2.1 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 21 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Carnarvon ‘like a war zone’ after OlwynMon, 16 Mar 2015 02:50:00 +0100.

CYCLONE OLWYN: WA coastal towns assess damage CARNARVON “looks like a war zone” after being thrashed by Tropical Cyclone Olwyn, but authorities are hoping to restore water and electricity to the West Australian town soon. Dozens of trees a
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Cyclone-hit Carnarvon expected to be declared natural disaster zoneMon, 16 Mar 2015 00:35:00 +0100.

The coastal West Australian town of Carnarvon is today expected to be declared a natural disaster zone in the wake of Cyclone Olwyn, giving it much-needed access to government assistance. Water Minister Mia Davies and Agriculture Minister K
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Olwyn ruins bananas causes health fearsSun, 15 Mar 2015 10:27:00 +0100.

Olwyn ruins bananas, causes health fears. The West Australian Sunday 15th March, 2015. There are hygiene fears in the West Australian coastal town of Carnarvon, which remains without running water after Tropical Cyclone Olwyn hit two days a
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Carnarvon 'like a war zone' after OlwynSun, 15 Mar 2015 08:22:00 +0100.

Carnarvon "looks like a war zone" after being thrashed by Tropical Cyclone Olwyn, but authorities are hoping to restore water and electricity to the West Australian town soon. Dozens of trees and fences were knocked over, and homes were dam
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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),