Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for DOLORES-15
in Mexico

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000182
Name DOLORES-15
From - To 11 Jul - 19 Jul
Exposed countries Mexico
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 241 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge
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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 345 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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T he “ State of the Climate ,” released annually by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found that 2014 was a record year for extreme weather: the "warmest year across global land and ocean surfaces since records began in 1
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NASA measures southwestern U.S. record rainfallWed, 22 Jul 2015 13:19:00 +0200.

Rainfall totals were estimated by IMERG to be over 268 mm (about 10.6 inches) in some areas of California. Credit: NASA/JAXA/SSAI, Hal Pierce. Moisture pumping into southern California and the Desert Southwest from the remnants of hurricane
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Heavy Rains Destroy Major Freeway Bridge In Southern CaliforniaMon, 20 Jul 2015 23:49:00 +0200.

Areas of Southern California saw rare summer thunderstorms this weekend, with rainfall that broke July records all over the state. So much rainfall, in fact, that flash flooding dislodged a bridge and collapsed a section of the 10 Freeway-t
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A lesson in infrared light - looking at three tropical cyclonesMon, 20 Jul 2015 13:51:00 +0200.

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Nangka (left) on July 15 at 12:35 p.m. EDT, Hurricane Dolores at 4:53 p.m. EDT and Tropical Storm Enrique at 6:35 p.m. EDT as the AIRS instrument gathered temperature data. Credit: NASA JPL, Ed Olse
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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),