Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for HATO-17
in China

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000389
Name HATO-17
Glide number: TC-2017-000120-CHN
From - To 20 Aug - 23 Aug
Exposed countries China
Exposed population 7.5 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 157 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 1.1 m (23 Aug 04:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (China)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 157 km/h 1.8 m n.a. 1.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 179 km/h 1.7 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 75 km/h 0.9 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 69 km/h 0.8 m n.a. 0.5
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),