Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for FOUR-18
in India

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000506
Name FOUR-18
From - To 20 Sep - 20 Sep
Exposed countries India
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 65 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 0.3 m (20 Sep 19:00 UTC)
Vulnerability High (India)

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 65 km/h 0.3 m n.a. 1.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 61 km/h 0.6 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 65 km/h 0.7 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF n.a 0.8 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (38), (2), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),