Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for KYLE-20
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone KYLE-20 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000696
Name KYLE-20
From - To 14 Aug - 16 Aug
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 83 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 0.3 m (16 Aug 16:00 UTC)
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 65 km/h 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 247 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Storm Ellen: 'Prepare to be without electricity for days' - 194,000 ho ... Thu, 20 Aug 2020 08:45:00 +0200.

Miraculously, no lives were lost as people heeded warnings to seek shelter and stay indoors at the height of Storm Ellen's violence which resulted in a Status Red alert - the highest possible - for Cork and Status Orange alerts for Munster
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Storm Ellen: Holidaymakers urged to flee as winds of 140kmh batter coa ... Thu, 20 Aug 2020 08:14:00 +0200.

It advised all customers impacted by outages "that they should prepare to be without electricity for number of days." Skibbereen in Co Cork suffered serious flooding after heavy rainfall from 8pm which was described as "like a monsoon". Dra
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Status Red warning as Cork braces for Storm EllenWed, 19 Aug 2020 22:08:00 +0200.

Severe and destructive winds are expected along the south and west coasts as Storm Ellen reaches Ireland tonight. A Status Red wind warning has come into effect for Cork, while a Status Orange warning covers the rest of Munster, Galway and
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Storm Ellen set to hit Ireland with ‘severe and potentially damaging w ... Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:38:00 +0200.

as well as Galway and Mayo from 9pm on Wednesday until midnight on Thursday. Met Éireann said there is also a risk of flooding, with heavy rain forecast for the coming days. A yellow wind warning is in place for the entire country from 9pm
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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),