Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for ALBERTO-18
in United States, Cuba, Mexico, Belize

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000454
Name ALBERTO-18
From - To 25 May - 29 May
Exposed countries United States, Cuba, Mexico, Belize
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 102 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 1 m (28 May 16:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (United States)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 46 km/h 1 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF 53 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1730 | About casualties: 34 | Last hour: 0

2018 hurricane season could be more active than 2017Sat, 02 Jun 2018 06:22:00 +0200.

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Welcome to the official start of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season. Unofficially, Alabama got the party started a little early. We start the season with the "A" storm already gone. Alberto's path of flooding and win
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Feed aggregatorSat, 02 Jun 2018 05:29:00 +0200.

A tropical storm made landfall on the coast of Rakhine State between Sittwe and Kyaukphyu on the night of 29-30 May 2018, bringing strong winds and heavy rains to at least 9 states and regions in Myanmar. It has now moved north-east and wea
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Forecasters Lower Predictions as Hurricane Season BeginsSat, 02 Jun 2018 04:07:00 +0200.

FLORIDA, United States, Friday June 1, 2018 – A day before today’s official start of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs until November 30, forecasters from the Colorado State University (CSU) issued a revised outlook, lowering t
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Weather forecast: Saturday to see plenty of sunshineSat, 02 Jun 2018 03:31:00 +0200.

Sent to us via the Spectrum News 13 app: A rainbow was seen in the southeastern sky after the storms move through Lake Buena Visa on Thursday, May 31, 2018. (Daniel Wallace, viewer) Weather forecast: Saturday to see plenty of sunshine. CE
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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),