Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for BANYAN-17
in United States Minor Outlying Islands

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000384
Name BANYAN-17
From - To 11 Aug - 16 Aug
Exposed countries United States Minor Outlying Islands
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 204 km/h Category 3
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability -- ()

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 111 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 164 km/h 0.4 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 133 km/h 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 126 km/h 0.3 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: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

NASA Sees Wind Shear Battering BanyanThu, 17 Aug 2017 18:39:00 +0200.

NASA's Terra satellite captured an infrared image of Typhoon Banyan that showed the strongest storms were being pushed northeast of the center from wind shear. An infrared image taken Aug. 16 at 6:25 a.m. EDT (1025 UTC), from the Moderate R
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NASA sees wind shear battering BanyanWed, 16 Aug 2017 23:56:00 +0200.

On Aug. 16, 2017, at 6:25 a.m. EDT (1025 UTC) NASA's Terra satellite captured an infrared image of wind shear pushing strongest storms (red and green) northeast of Banyan's center of circulation. Credit: NASA/NRL. NASA's Terra satellite cap
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NASA Spots Typhoon Banyan's Large EyeWed, 16 Aug 2017 18:21:00 +0200.

Typhoon Banyan's eye became visible again in satellite imagery from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite. A visible image showed powerful storms tightly would around Typhoon Banyan's center as it moved through the Pacific Ocean. On Aug. 15 at 01
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NASA's Sees a Tightly Wound Typhoon BanyanTue, 15 Aug 2017 05:42:00 +0200.

Satellite imagery from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite showed powerful storms tightly would around Typhoon Banyan's center as it moved through the Pacific Ocean. On Aug. 14 at 02:06 UTC (Aug. 13 at 10:06 p.m. EDT) the Visible Infrared Imagi
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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),