Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for ELLA-17
in Wallis and Futuna

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000355
Name ELLA-17
From - To 09 May - 14 May
Exposed countries Wallis and Futuna
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 139 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 0.1 m (12 May 02:00 UTC)
Vulnerability -- (Wallis & Futuna)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 56 km/h 0.1 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 65 km/h 4.8 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 49 km/h 4.8 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF n.a 4.8 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 11 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Tropical Cyclone Ella brings rain, flooding to FijiSat, 13 May 2017 12:50:00 +0200.

The tropical cyclone season in the southern hemisphere is supposed to end on April 30. We now have two storms that have developed since that date. Last week we had Tropical Cyclone Donna passing between Vanuatu and New Caledonia. The remnan
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Futuna. La dépression tropicale Ella menace, l’alerte rouge déclenchéeThu, 11 May 2017 16:53:00 +0200.

La « dépression tropicale forte » Ella et ses rafales de vent à 130 km/h se dirigent vers l'île de Futuna. Météo France a émis un bulletin d'alerte cyclonique rouge. | Météo France Alors que la « dépression tropicale forte » Ella et ses ra
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Futuna: la dépression tropicale Ella menace l'île, alerte cyclonique d ... Thu, 11 May 2017 13:20:00 +0200.

© météo france Futuna : la dépression tropicale Ella menace l'île, alerte cyclonique déclenchée. Lorsque le cyclone passera près des côtés de Futuna, ses vents se renforceront pour atteindre des rafales de 140km/h. Une alerte cyclonique n°2
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Futuna : la dépression tropicale Ella menace l'île, alerte cyclonique ... Thu, 11 May 2017 10:15:00 +0200.

Lorsque le cyclone passera près des côtés de Futuna, ses vents se renforceront pour atteindre des rafales de 140km/h. Une alerte cyclonique n°2 a été déclenchée sur l'île de Futuna à 17h30 (7h30 à Paris) jeudi à cause de la dépression trop
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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), INFORM (2),