Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for KOMPASU-16
in Japan

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000293
Name KOMPASU-16
From - To 20 Aug - 21 Aug
Exposed countries Japan
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 65 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge n.a.
Vulnerability Low (Japan)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 56 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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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),