Overall Orange Tropical Cyclone for MEKKHALA-20 in China from 09 Aug 2020 12:00 UTC to 11 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC

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Overall Orange Tropical Cyclone for MEKKHALA-20

in China

11 Aug 2020 00 UTC

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Impact Single TC

Impact based on all weather systems in the area

Impact

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

Meteorological source	GDACS
Exposed countries	China
Exposed population	2.7 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	130 km/h
Maximum storm surge	1 m (11 Aug 11:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Medium (China)
Landfall	between 10 Aug 2020 18:00 - 11 Aug 2020 00:00 in China

GDACS Score

GDACS score for Tropical Cyclones is 0.5 (GREEN Level), 1.5 (ORANGE Level), 2.5 (RED Level)
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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
Current	130 km/h	1.0 m	n.a.	1.5
Overall	130 km/h	1.0 m	n.a.	1.5
Maximum winds, storm surge, rainfall (Current: over the next 72 h, Overall: entire TC track) based on GDACS impact

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Wind

130 km/h Current Max.

Up to 2.7 million people in Category 1 strength or higher (see SSHS)

Impact Timeline

N°	Date (UTC)	Max Winds (km/h)	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Population in Cat 1. or higher	Countries
1	09 Aug 2020 12:00	74	17.5 million	No people	China
2	09 Aug 2020 18:00	83	18.7 million	No people	China
3	10 Aug 2020 00:00	83	29.9 million	No people	China
4	10 Aug 2020 06:00	83	32.4 million	No people	China
6	10 Aug 2020 18:00	102	29.7 million	No people	China
7	11 Aug 2020 00:00	130	39.4 million	2.7 million	China

Bulletin Timeline

N°	Date (UTC)	Category (SSHS)	Max winds (km/h)	Population in Cat.1 or higher	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Location (lat, lon)	Countries
1	09 Aug 2020 12:00	Tropical depression	56	no people	no people	16.8, 118.3
2	09 Aug 2020 18:00	Tropical depression	56	no people	no people	18.3, 118.5
3	10 Aug 2020 00:00	Tropical storm	65	no people	no people	19.2, 118.5
4	10 Aug 2020 06:00	Tropical storm	65	no people	96000 people	20.2, 118.7
6	10 Aug 2020 18:00	Tropical storm	102	no people	21.5 million people	22.9, 118.2
7	11 Aug 2020 00:00	Category 1	130	2.8 million people	31.4 million people	24.1, 117.7	China
7	11 Aug 2020 12:00	Tropical storm	83	no people	11.4 million people	26.7, 117.3	China
7	12 Aug 2020 00:00	Tropical depression	46	no people	no people	29.4, 117.5	China
7	12 Aug 2020 12:00	Tropical depression	37	no people	no people	33.1, 118.5	China

Actual track of the current bulletin

The alert for forecast greater than 3 days is limited to Orange level.

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Exposed population - AoIs

Exposed population in the potential affected countries, provinces and populated places

Countries

Source: GADM and GHSL

Provinces

Source: GADM and GHSL

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

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Rainfall

Rainfall accumulation of the past 24h, as detected by the Global Precipitation Measurement mission of NASA. For more information, see https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GPM/main/index.html.

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StormSurge

The JRC has developed an experimental global storm surge model. The calculations are published about 20 minutes after a new advisory is detected by GDACS. The calculations identify the populated places affected by storm surge up to three days in advance, using the forecasted track. When forecasts change, the associated storm surge changes too and alert levels may go up or down. All links, data, statistics and maps refer to the latest available calculation. If the calculation for the last advisory is not completed, the latest available calculation is shown.

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