Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for RUSTY-13
in Australia

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone RUSTY-13 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 35931
Name RUSTY-13
From - To 24 Feb - 27 Feb
Exposed countries Australia
Exposed population Few people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 212 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 1.2 m (27 Feb 09:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Australia)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 138 km/h 1.2 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: 28 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Red Alert as Rusty batters WA coastWed, 27 Feb 2013 07:00:00 +0100.

TROPICAL Cyclone Rusty is now battering WA's Pilbara coast after being upgraded to a category four storm.
Le cyclone Rusty en direction de PilbaraWed, 27 Feb 2013 01:03:00 +0100.

Des centaines de personnes de cette région d'Australie occidentale ont été obligés de se réfugierdans des abris
Tropical cyclone Rusty struck Australia at about 06:00 GMT on 26 Febru ... Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:30:00 +0100.

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:01 GMT. Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk. Tropical cyclone Rusty struck Australia at about 06:00 GMT on 26 February.Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the po
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Tropical cyclone Rusty struck Australia at about 06:00 GMT on 26 Febru ... Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:29:00 +0100.

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:01 GMT. Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk. Tropical cyclone Rusty struck Australia at about 06:00 GMT on 26 February.Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the po
...(more)

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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: BOM (1), EC-JRC (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),