Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for SANDRA-13
in New Caledonia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 36188
Name SANDRA-13
From - To 08 Mar - 14 Mar
Exposed countries New Caledonia
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 222 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 0.2 m (12 Mar 04:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (New Caledonia)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 74 km/h 0.2 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: 11 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

World: Violence prevention: Looking beyond the immediate impact of maj ... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:55:00 +0100.

Source: IFRC Country: Haiti, World The consequences of a disaster often live on beyond the moment of crisis that we all hear about. For those at the centre of a disaster, life becomes ever more stressful, existing vulnerabilities are amplif
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Sandra s’affaiblit légèrementTue, 12 Mar 2013 00:28:00 +0100.

Selon le dernier point de Météo France, le cyclone Sandra génère des vents moyens estimés à 150 km/h (rafales à 200 km/h) près de son centre. Il s'est légèrement affaiblit, sa pression au centre est maintenant estimée à 955 hPa. Il se dépla
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Cyclone SANDRA: Alerte rouge mardi à 5h00 pour Belep,Poum,Koumac et Ou ... Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:01:00 +0100.

Belep,Poum,Koumac et Ouégoa en alerte rouge mardi à 5h00 , les communes au dessus de la ligne Pouembout Poindimié placées en alerte orange à la même heure. Les autres communes de province Nord, le Sud et les Loyauté resteront en pré-alerte.
Sandra tombe en catégorie 3Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:04:00 +0100.

Ce lundi matin, le cyclone était à 300 kilomètres de l'île polynésienne de Rennell, dans le sud des Iles Salomon.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),