Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for EARL-16
in Guatemala, Belize

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000282
Name EARL-16
From - To 02 Aug - 06 Aug
Exposed countries Guatemala, Belize
Exposed population 110 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 139 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 0.5 m (04 Aug 03:00 UTC)
Vulnerability High (Guatemala)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 46 km/h 0.5 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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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),