Overall Red Tropical Cyclone for IDA-21 in United States, Cuba from 26 Aug 2021 15:00 UTC to 28 Aug 2021 03:00 UTC

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Overall Red Tropical Cyclone for IDA-21

in United States, Cuba

28 Aug 2021 03 UTC

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Impact Single TC

Impact based on all weather systems in the area

Impact

Tropical Cyclone IDA-21 can have a high humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed,exposed population and vulnerability.

Meteorological source	GDACS
Glide number:	TC-2021-000131-CUB
Exposed countries	United States, Cuba
Exposed population	2.7 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	241 km/h
Maximum storm surge	2 m (30 Aug 03:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Low (Cuba)
Landfall	between 29 Aug 2021 12:00 - 30 Aug 2021 00:00 in United States

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	222 km/h	2.0 m	n.a.	1.5
Overall	241 km/h	2.0 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

222 km/h Current Max.

Up to 1.6 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	26 Aug 2021 15:00	176	7.4 million	770 thousand	United States
2	26 Aug 2021 21:00	176	9.7 million	1.3 million	United States
3	27 Aug 2021 03:00	176	6.1 million	1.1 million	United States
4	27 Aug 2021 09:00	185	7.9 million	1.5 million	United States
5	27 Aug 2021 15:00	194	6.7 million	1.1 million	Cuba, United States
6	27 Aug 2021 21:00	222	11 million	1.4 million	Cuba, United States
7	28 Aug 2021 03:00	222	16.7 million	1.6 million	Cuba, United States

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	26 Aug 2021 15:00	Tropical depression	56	no people	no people	16.9, -79.2
2	26 Aug 2021 21:00	Tropical depression	56	no people	55000 people	18, -79.8
3	27 Aug 2021 03:00	Tropical storm	65	no people	55000 people	18.6, -80.5
4	27 Aug 2021 09:00	Tropical storm	74	no people	790000 people	20, -81.4
5	27 Aug 2021 15:00	Tropical storm	102	250000 people	1.9 million people	20.7, -82.1
6	27 Aug 2021 21:00	Category 1	130	470000 people	3.4 million people	22.1, -83.2
7	28 Aug 2021 03:00	Category 1	130	3300 people	3.3 million people	23, -84
7	28 Aug 2021 12:00	Category 2	157	no people	no people	24.4, -85.6
7	29 Aug 2021 00:00	Category 3	194	no people	420000 people	26.1, -87.7
7	29 Aug 2021 12:00	Category 4	222	140000 people	3.2 million people	27.8, -89.6
7	30 Aug 2021 00:00	Category 3	204	1.1 million people	4.3 million people	29.2, -90.8	United States
7	30 Aug 2021 12:00	Tropical storm	111	no people	7 million people	30.7, -91	United States
7	31 Aug 2021 00:00	Tropical storm	65	no people	12.7 million people	32.3, -90.6	United States
7	01 Sep 2021 00:00	Tropical depression	46	no people	no people	34.9, -88.2	United States
7	02 Sep 2021 00:00	Tropical depression	37	no people	no people	36.8, -83.9	United States

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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