Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for ALPHA-20 in Portugal, Spain from 18 Sep 2020 16:30 UTC to 19 Sep 2020 03:00 UTC

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Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for ALPHA-20

in Portugal, Spain

19 Sep 2020 03 UTC

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Impact based on all weather systems in the area

Impact

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

Meteorological source	GDACS
Exposed countries	Portugal, Spain
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	83 km/h
Maximum storm surge	0.3 m (18 Sep 18:30 UTC)
Vulnerability	Low (Portugal)
Landfall	between 18 Sep 2020 21:00 - 19 Sep 2020 03:00 in Portugal, Spain

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	46 km/h	0.3 m	n.a.	0.5
Overall	83 km/h	0.3 m	n.a.	0.5
Maximum winds, storm surge, rainfall (Current: over the next 72 h, Overall: entire TC track) based on GDACS impact

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Wind

46 km/h Current Max.

Up to 1.9 million people in Tropical Storm 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	18 Sep 2020 16:30	83	3 million	No people	Portugal, Spain
2	18 Sep 2020 21:00	74	2.4 million	No people	Portugal, Spain
3	19 Sep 2020 03:00	46	1.9 million	No people	Portugal, Spain

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	18 Sep 2020 16:30	Tropical storm	83	no people	no people	39.9, -9.3
2	18 Sep 2020 21:00	Tropical storm	74	no people	2 million people	40.4, -8.4	Portugal
3	19 Sep 2020 03:00	Tropical depression	46	no people	no people	40.9, -6.9	Portugal, Spain
3	19 Sep 2020 12:00	Tropical depression	37	no people	no people	42.6, -4.4	Spain

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

Country
Portugal
Spain

Provinces

Region Province	Country
Guarda	Portugal
Castilla y Leon	Spain
Braganca	Portugal
Viseu	Portugal
Castelo Branco	Portugal
Coimbra	Portugal
Aveiro	Portugal
Leiria	Portugal
Santarem	Portugal

Populated places

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population
Guarda	Guarda	Portugal	City	28000 people
Covilhã	Castelo Branco	Portugal	City	18000 people
Viseu	Viseu	Portugal	City	26000 people
Ovar	Aveiro	Portugal	City	18000 people
Coimbra	Coimbra	Portugal	Major city	110000 people
Aveiro	Aveiro	Portugal	City	54000 people
Ílhavo	Aveiro	Portugal	City	17000 people
Pombal	Leiria	Portugal	City	17000 people
Figueira da Foz	Coimbra	Portugal	City	12000 people
Leiria	Leiria	Portugal	City	45000 people
Marinha Grande	Leiria	Portugal	City	29000 people

Critical infrastructure

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

Airports

Name	IATA Code	Elevation (m)	Usage	Runway type	IFR	Runway Length (ft)
Covilha	COV	482	Civ.	Paved	No	3100
Viseu	VSE	628	Civ.	Paved	No	3200
Coimbra	CBP	179	Civ.	Paved	No	3000
Aveiro		8	Civ.	Paved	No	4500
Monte Real		57	Mil.	Paved	Yes	8000

Ports

Name	LOCODE	Country
Aveiro	PTAVE	Portugal
Figueira Da Foz	PTFDF	Portugal
Nazare		Portugal

Dams

Dam Name	River	Year
Saucelle	Duero	1956
Pocinho	Douro	1982
Vilar	Tavora	1965
Santa Luzia	Unhais	1942
Aguieira	Mondego	1981
Fronhas	Alva	1984
Raiva	Mondego	1981

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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

0.3 m

The maximum Storm surge height is 0.3m in Figueira da Foz, Portugal. This height is estimated for 18 Sep 2020 18:30 UTC .

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.

Locations affected by Storm surge (17 locations). Calculation based on advisory number 2 of 18 Sep 2020 21:00:00 UTC. (Simulation using 0.5 minute resolution)

Level	Date (UTC)	Name	Country	Storm surge height (m)
	18 Sep 2020 18:30	Figueira da Foz	Portugal	0.3
	18 Sep 2020 18:30	Leirosa	Portugal	0.3
	18 Sep 2020 18:30	Costa de Lavos	Portugal	0.3
	18 Sep 2020 18:30	Pedrogao	Portugal	0.3
	18 Sep 2020 19:30	Quiaios	Portugal	0.2
	18 Sep 2020 17:30	S. Pedro de Muel	Portugal	0.2
	18 Sep 2020 19:30	Bom Sucesso	Portugal	0.2
	18 Sep 2020 19:30	Praia da Tocha	Portugal	0.1
	18 Sep 2020 17:30	S. Martinho do Porto	Portugal	0.1
	18 Sep 2020 17:30	Vale de Paredes	Portugal	0.1
	18 Sep 2020 20:30	Praia de Mira	Portugal	0.1
	18 Sep 2020 21:30	Gafanha da Boa Hora	Portugal	0.1
	18 Sep 2020 17:30	Nazare	Portugal	0.1
	18 Sep 2020 17:30	Nazare	Portugal	0.1
	18 Sep 2020 21:30	Gafanha do Carmo	Portugal	0.1
	18 Sep 2020 20:30	Sao Jacinto	Portugal	0.1
	18 Sep 2020 17:30	Consolacao	Portugal	0.1

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