Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for BRET-17
in Venezuela, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Netherlands Antilles, Guyana, Aruba, Colombia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000361
Name BRET-17
From - To 19 Jun - 20 Jun
Exposed countries Venezuela, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Netherlands Antilles, Guyana, Aruba, Colombia
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 74 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge n.a.
Vulnerability Medium (Venezuela)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 74 km/h n.a. n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 66 km/h 0.4 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 55 km/h 0.6 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF n.a 0.5 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: 511 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Sinanan: Let the corporations discard appliancesSat, 24 Jun 2017 09:29:00 +0200.

Minister of Works and Transport Rohan Sinanan yesterday advised persons who lost fridges, stoves, appliances and other items in the floods, that after they are assessed for compensation by the Ministry of Social Development, all attempts wi
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CONTINUING WEATHER COVERAGESat, 24 Jun 2017 03:57:00 +0200.

Tropical Storm Cindy has developed in the Gulf of Mexico, packing 40 mph winds and is barely moving. It will start to push north-northwest tomorrow, and make a landfall somewhere between Texas and Louisiana on Thursday. More > Tropical Stor
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WEATHER COVERAGEFri, 23 Jun 2017 16:47:00 +0200.

Tropical Storm Cindy has developed in the Gulf of Mexico, packing 40 mph winds and is barely moving. It will start to push north-northwest tomorrow, and make a landfall somewhere between Texas and Louisiana on Thursday. More > Tropical Stor
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Cindy Makes Landfall in Southeast USFri, 23 Jun 2017 06:33:00 +0200.

MIAMI – Cindy, the third tropical storm of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall early Thursday on the border between Louisiana and Texas, bringing intense rain and flooding. In its latest public advisory at 1200 GMT, the United
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),