Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for NIDA-16
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone NIDA-16 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000280
Name NIDA-16
From - To 29 Jul - 02 Aug
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population 1.7 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 157 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 1.8 m (01 Aug 21:00 UTC)
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 120 km/h 1.8 m n.a. 1.5
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

Articles: 840 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

New mission to recover El Faro data recorder begins 32 Mins A Navy ves ... Fri, 05 Aug 2016 23:55:00 +0200.

A Navy vessel left Little Creek, Virginia, Friday headed for Caribbean waters near the Bahamas to make another effort to retrieve a key piece of evidence in the sinking of Jacksonville-based cargo ship El Faro. The Jacksonville-based cargo
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Double whammy: Thunderstorms now, heat advisory Sat.Fri, 05 Aug 2016 23:46:00 +0200.

The tropical humidity draping the New Orleans area, combined with mostly sunny skies, triggered a series of Friday afternoon (Aug. 5), and forecasters issued a heat advisory for much of the New Orleans and Baton Rouge areas on Saturday. Fro
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Hong Kong, China flights cancelled as Typhoon Nida approachesFri, 05 Aug 2016 23:39:00 +0200.

HONG KONG (AFP) – Hong Kong and southern China hunkered down on Monday (Aug 1) as Typhoon Nida swirled towards the region, with hundreds of flights cancelled, schools closed and ferries halted. Hong Kong raised a “T8” storm signal – the thi
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Heavy rain; possible flooding this weekend Read StoryFri, 05 Aug 2016 23:37:00 +0200.

Happy Friday everyone! I'm meteorologist Kate Wentzel and I'm tracking what is shaping up to be a wet weekend for the Tampa Bay area due to a trough of low pressure in the northeast Gulf and some upper level energy moving through. This patt
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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),