Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for BART-17
in Cook Islands

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone BART-17 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000339
Name BART-17
From - To 21 Feb - 22 Feb
Exposed countries Cook Islands
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 83 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge n.a.
Vulnerability Medium (Cook Is.)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 65 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.
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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 (38), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),