Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for ARTHUR-14
in United States

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone ARTHUR-14 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 46478
Name ARTHUR-14
From - To 01 Jul - 05 Jul
Exposed countries United States
Exposed population 240 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 167 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 1.7 m (04 Jul 05:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (United States)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 93 km/h 1.7 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
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 626 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

3-D hurricane view of Arthur reveals rain towersWed, 09 Jul 2014 14:48:00 +0200.

While Hurricane Arthur was still a hurricane, the new Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory flew over the storm last week and captured its structure in 3-D. This was a good test of the new satellite, which is supposed to h
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ESA image: The eye of super typhoon NeoguriWed, 09 Jul 2014 14:18:00 +0200.

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is sharing his incredible views from 400 km above on the International Space Station. In the last week the six astronauts witnessed Hurricane Arthur terrorise the US east coast, beautiful auroras and super typh
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NASA-JAXAs new precipitation satellite sees first Atlantic hurricaneWed, 09 Jul 2014 14:12:00 +0200.

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory flew over Hurricane Arthur five times between July 1 and July 5, 2014. Arthur is the first tropical cyclone of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane ...
Poles apart: Arctic sea ice has shrunk but Antarctic sea ice has grownWed, 09 Jul 2014 13:18:00 +0200.

A new study of satellite sea ice measurements shows that over the last 35 years there have been dramatic changes in sea ice cover around the world.

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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2),