Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for FLAMBOYAN-18
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone FLAMBOYAN-18 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000449
Name FLAMBOYAN-18
From - To 28 Apr - 02 May
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 130 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 74 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 91 km/h 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF 104 km/h 0 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: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

GPM Satellite Views Tropical Cyclone Flamboyan's RainfallThu, 03 May 2018 23:12:00 +0200.

Tropical Cyclone Flamboyan was being battered by vertical wind shear when the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed overhead and analyzed its rainfall rates. Tropical Cyclone Flamboyan formed in the middle of
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NASA finds Tropical Cyclone Flamboyan in a southeastern stretchWed, 02 May 2018 18:58:00 +0200.

IMAGE: NASA's Aqua satellite provided a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Flamboyan on May 2 at 3:50 a.m. EDT (0750 UTC). The storm is devoid of rainfall with the exception of... Credit: NASA/NRL. Strong vertical wind shear had taken its t
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NASA Finds Wind Shear Affecting Tropical Cyclone FlamboyanTue, 01 May 2018 19:45:00 +0200.

When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Flamboyan in the Southern Indian Ocean it analyzed the storm in visible and infrared light. Flamboyan, the 21st tropical cyclone of the Southern Indian Ocean season, formed over the we
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GPM satellite views Tropical Cyclone Flamboyan's rainfallTue, 01 May 2018 19:34:00 +0200.

IMAGE: On April 29, 2018, at 6:26 p.m. EDT (2226 UTC) GPM's Microwave Imager (GMI) scanned the center of the tropical cyclone and found rain falling there at a rate of... Credit: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce. Tropical Cyclone Flamboyan was being
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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),