Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for KOPPU-15
in Philippines

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000227
Name KOPPU-15
From - To 13 Oct - 21 Oct
Exposed countries Philippines
Exposed population 290 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 259 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge 1.1 m (18 Oct 08:00 UTC)
Vulnerability -- (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 46 km/h 1.1 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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Meteo assessment
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 915 | About casualties: 315 | Last hour: 0

Haze May Affect Health, Execs SaySat, 24 Oct 2015 18:59:00 +0200.

“Don’t underestimate the ill effects of haze. It’s worsening the already compromised quality of air that we breathe imposing health risks to everybody,” Dr. Kadil Sinolinding Jr., regional secretary for Department of Health in the Autonomou
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Parts of Philippines to suffer Indonesia’s haze until 2016 due to El N ... Sat, 24 Oct 2015 18:20:00 +0200.

Manila: The severe dry season caused by the El Nino phenomena will make central and southern Philippines suffer Indonesia’s haze until early 2016, despite a combined regional effort in Southeast Asia to tackle forest fires in Indonesia’s ea
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Read ‘Typhoon threat lingers’ weathermen warnSat, 24 Oct 2015 18:14:00 +0200.

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration emphasized such a point as its forecasters haven’t yet ruled out the occurrence of tropical storms from October to December. “The threat of TCs still looms eve
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UN office lauds PH's 'improved' response to disastersSat, 24 Oct 2015 17:02:00 +0200.

. MANILA - The head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) praised the Philippines for its successful efforts to reduce mortality, and the number of people affected by the latest typhoon. UNISDR head Margareta Wa
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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),