Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for KIRK-12
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone KIRK-12 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 32156
Name KIRK-12
From - To 29 Aug - 02 Sep
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 175 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability -- ()

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 84 km/h 0 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 163 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

Leslie weakens; Kirk, Ileana petering outMon, 03 Sep 2012 02:30:00 +0200.

MIAMI, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Leslie weakened through the day Sunday, easing back from its near-hurricane strength out in the Atlantic Ocean, U.S. forecasters said.
One Atlantic storm weaker, second strongerSun, 02 Sep 2012 17:28:00 +0200.

MIAMI, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Kirk was weakening over the Atlantic Ocean Sunday as Tropical Storm Leslie strengthened to near hurricane status, forecasters in Miami said.
Leslie, Kirk & Ileana still churningSun, 02 Sep 2012 01:25:00 +0200.

MIAMI, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Tropical Storms Leslie, Kirk and Ileana were still active Saturday evening but only Leslie posed a future threat to land, U.S. forecasters said.
All Facebook Apps to Soon Have Notification CapabilitySat, 01 Sep 2012 20:24:00 +0200.

There could be a lot more notifications from Facebook on the way. The company's rolled out a beta version of a new notifications API, a tool for developers that lets all Facebook apps send notifications to users. This could open the floodga
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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 (46), (2), INFORM (2),