Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for OMAIS-16 in Japan, Russian Federation from 04 Aug 2016 12:00 UTC to 08 Aug 2016 18:00 UTC

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	TC 1000284
Name	OMAIS-16
From - To	04 Aug - 08 Aug
Exposed countries	Japan, Russian Federation
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	139 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge	0.3 m (08 Aug 13:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Low (Japan)

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS JTWC	74 km/h	0.3 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.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),