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

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000201
Name LOKE-15
From - To 21 Aug - 26 Aug
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 130 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 0.1 m (28 Aug 00:00 UTC)
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 93 km/h 0.1 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 316 | About casualties: 69 | Last hour: 0

GPM satellite sees heavy rain around Loke's centerWed, 26 Aug 2015 17:13:00 +0200.

The Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission core satellite can measure rainfall from space, and saw heavy rainfall in the Central Pacific's Loke when it was a hurricane. Hurricane Loke formed southwest of the Hawaiian Islands on Au
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NASA sees Tropical Storm Loke strengtheningMon, 24 Aug 2015 18:27:00 +0200.

Terra passed over Loke on August 24 at 09:50 UTC (5:50 a.m. EDT). The data showed that the strongest storms, with the coldest (red) cloud top temperatures were north of the center of circulation. Credit: NASA/NRL. NASA's Terra satellite ana
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Tropical depression Kilo seen slowly strengthening, Loke formsSun, 23 Aug 2015 20:29:00 +0200.

Aug 23 (Reuters) - Tropical depression Kilo is expected to strengthen back into a tropical storm later on Sunday as it travels across the central Pacific toward the west end of the Hawaiian islands, the National Weather Service said. Furthe
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Tropical depression Kilo seen slowly strengthening, Loke formsSun, 23 Aug 2015 19:28:00 +0200.

Aug 23 (Reuters) - Tropical depression Kilo is expected to strengthen back into a tropical storm later on Sunday as it travels across the central Pacific toward the west end of the Hawaiian islands, the National Weather Service said. Furthe
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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), INFORM (1), (1),