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

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000211
Name VAMCO-15
From - To 13 Sep - 14 Sep
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 83 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge n.a.
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 65 km/h n.a. 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: 10 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Typhoon Vamco weakens to depression; rain to continueTue, 15 Sep 2015 10:53:00 +0200.

Typhoon Vamco, the third tropical storm that has hit Vietnam this year, weakened after bringing strong winds and heavy rain to central provinces on Monday evening. Strong winds and rain uprooted trees and billboards on many streets in Da N
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Earth just had its first storm-free hurricane peak in 38 yearsTue, 15 Sep 2015 00:09:00 +0200.

SEPTEMBER 12 marks the peak of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, but this year the day passed without any named hurricanes, a report in Science News says. Odder still, according to the report, the recently restless Pacific Ocean had a qu
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RapidScat catches a day in the short life of Tropical Storm VamcoMon, 14 Sep 2015 22:36:00 +0200.

On Sept. 13 at 4 p.m. EDT RapidScat saw Vamco's winds were near 21 meters per second (46.9 mph/75.6 kph) on the storm's southwestern side, along the coast of southeastern Vietnam. Credit: NASA JPL/Doug Tyler. Tropical Storm Vamco lived for
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27 flights cancelled due to typhoonMon, 14 Sep 2015 15:05:00 +0200.

Vietnam Airlines (VNA) and Jetstar Pacific have cancelled a total of 27 flights because the Vamco typhoon, the third typhoon this year, has entered the central parts of the country. VNA said it would not release any flights to or from the c
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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),