Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for MALAKAS-16
in Japan

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000305
Name MALAKAS-16
From - To 11 Sep - 20 Sep
Exposed countries Japan
Exposed population 2.4 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 222 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 1.5 m (20 Sep 09:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Japan)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 46 km/h 1.5 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

Articles: 611 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

Tropical Storm Karl passes near Bermuda, turns northSat, 24 Sep 2016 17:51:00 +0200.

HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — Tropical Storm Karl passed southeast of Bermuda early Saturday and lashed the island with powerful winds and squalls before turning toward the north Atlantic. The U.S. National Hurricane Service in Miami said Karl w
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Tropical Storm Karl Passes Near Bermuda, Turns NortheastSat, 24 Sep 2016 17:34:00 +0200.

Tropical Storm Karl passed southeast of Bermuda early Saturday and lashed the island with powerful winds and squalls before turning toward the north Atlantic. No major damage was reported as the Bermuda Weather Service discontinued its hurr
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article Typhoon Megi is forecast to strike Taiwan at about 07:00 GMT o ... Sat, 24 Sep 2016 17:33:00 +0200.

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Typhoon Megi is forecast to strike Taiwan at about 07:00 GMT on 27 September. Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warn
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Tropical Storm Karl passes near Bermuda, turns northeastSat, 24 Sep 2016 17:28:00 +0200.

HAMILTON, Bermuda Tropical Storm Karl passed southeast of Bermuda early Saturday and lashed the island with powerful winds and squalls before turning toward the north Atlantic. No major damage was reported as the Bermuda Weather Service dis
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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),