Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for SARIKA-16
in China, Philippines

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000320
Name SARIKA-16
From - To 12 Oct - 19 Oct
Exposed countries China, Philippines
Exposed population 7.5 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 213 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 1.3 m (18 Oct 06:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (China)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 56 km/h 1.3 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.
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), WMO (1), INFORM (2),