Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for GERT-17
Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000386
Name GERT-17
From - To 13 Aug - 17 Aug
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 167 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 0.2 m (16 Aug 04:00 UTC)
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 130 km/h 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 89 km/h 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 62 km/h 1 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 71 km/h 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

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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), INFORM (1), (1),