Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for GORDON-18
in United States

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000497
Name GORDON-18
From - To 03 Sep - 05 Sep
Exposed countries United States
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 120 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 0.8 m (05 Sep 03:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (United States)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 46 km/h 0.8 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 72 km/h 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 56 km/h 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF n.a 0.2 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: 1850 | About casualties: 118 | Last hour: 0

A wet stormy Sunday is ahead as a stalling front moves in.Sun, 09 Sep 2018 14:42:00 +0200.

Speech to Text for A wet stormy Sunday is ahead as a stalling front moves in. Below is the closed-captioning text associated with this video. Since this uses automated speech to text spelling and grammar may not be accurate. are tracking a
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Tropical storms Helene, Isaac joins Florence in the Atlantic Ocean 49 ... Sun, 09 Sep 2018 05:55:00 +0200.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season turns active as we enter the peak of hurricane season. The Weather Authority says the Atlantic Basin is producing a number of significant storms that could potentially affect life and
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Tropical Storm Florence creeps closer to US, to head toward East Coast ... Sun, 09 Sep 2018 05:26:00 +0200.

Meanwhile, the remnants of what was Tropical Storm Gordon will soak portions of the Midwest and East on Saturday and into Sunday, likely leading to widespread and dangerous flooding. "Many areas in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana will contin
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Tropical Storm Isaac, 9th named storm of season, forms in AtlanticSun, 09 Sep 2018 04:59:00 +0200.

Tropical Storm Gordon is continuing to strengthen and is expected to become a hurricane late Tuesday when it hits the central U.S. Gulf Coast, including coastal Mississippi. More >> Tropical Storm Gordon is continuing to strengthen and is e
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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),