Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for DANNY-15
in Dominica, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Montserrat

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000199
Name DANNY-15
From - To 18 Aug - 24 Aug
Exposed countries Dominica, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Montserrat
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 176 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 0.2 m (24 Aug 13:00 UTC)
Vulnerability High (Dominica)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 65 km/h 0.2 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

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Tropical Storm Erika soaks Caribbean, headed for US East CoastThu, 27 Aug 2015 20:50:00 +0200.

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Erika continued to strengthen as it dumped torrential rainfall on islands in the Eastern Caribbean and appeared to be headed for the US East Coast early next week, the US National Hurricane Center said on Thursday. Er
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Tropical storm Erika enters Caribbean, headed for Bahamas ...Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:52:00 +0200.

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),