Overall Orange Tropical Cyclone for RICK-21
in Mexico

Impact

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

Meteorological source GDACS
Glide number: FL-2021-000166-VNM
Exposed countries Mexico
Exposed population 740 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 167 km/h
Maximum storm surge 0.5 m (25 Oct 10:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Mexico)
Landfall between
25 Oct 2021 09:00 - 25 Oct 2021 15:00

in Mexico

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 37 km/h 0.5 m n.a. 0.5
Overall 167 km/h 0.5 m n.a. 1.5

Maximum winds, storm surge, rainfall (Current: over the next 72 h, Overall: entire TC track) based on GDACS impact

Wind

37 km/h Current Max.

Up to 3.2 million people in Tropical Storm strength or higher (see SSHS)

Impact Timeline

Level N° Date (UTC) Max Winds (km/h) Population in
Tropical Storm or higher
Population in
Cat 1. or higher
Countries
Orange 1 22 Oct 2021 15:00 139 2 million 560 thousand Mexico
Orange 2 22 Oct 2021 21:00 120 9 million 2.8 million Mexico
Orange 3 23 Oct 2021 03:00 148 9.3 million 520 thousand Mexico
Orange 4 23 Oct 2021 09:00 185 8.9 million 870 thousand Mexico
Red 5 23 Oct 2021 15:00 194 11 million 340 thousand Mexico
Orange 6 23 Oct 2021 21:00 157 8.9 million 250 thousand Mexico
Red 7 24 Oct 2021 03:00 185 9.4 million 250 thousand Mexico
Orange 8 24 Oct 2021 09:00 157 6.3 million 210 thousand Mexico
Orange 9 24 Oct 2021 15:00 167 2.4 million 250 thousand Mexico
Orange 10 24 Oct 2021 21:00 148 1.7 million 200 thousand Mexico
Orange 11 25 Oct 2021 03:00 157 2 million 300 thousand Mexico
Orange 12 25 Oct 2021 09:00 167 2.7 million 310 thousand Mexico
Orange 13 25 Oct 2021 15:00 130 9.2 million 530 thousand Mexico
Green 14 25 Oct 2021 21:00 56 3.2 million 740 thousand Mexico
Green 15 26 Oct 2021 03:00 37 3.2 million 740 thousand Mexico

Bulletin Timeline

Level 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
GREEN
1 22 Oct 2021 15:00 Tropical depression 56 no people no people 12.7, -100.5
GREEN
2 22 Oct 2021 21:00 Tropical storm 65 no people no people 13.1, -101
GREEN
3 23 Oct 2021 03:00 Tropical storm 83 no people no people 13.4, -101.3
GREEN
4 23 Oct 2021 09:00 Tropical storm 111 no people no people 13.9, -101.4
GREEN
5 23 Oct 2021 15:00 Category 1 130 no people no people 14.7, -101.5
GREEN
6 23 Oct 2021 21:00 Category 1 139 no people no people 15.1, -101.8
GREEN
7 24 Oct 2021 03:00 Category 1 139 no people no people 15.3, -102
GREEN
8 24 Oct 2021 09:00 Category 1 139 no people no people 15.6, -101.7
GREEN
9 24 Oct 2021 15:00 Category 1 139 no people 390000 people 16.1, -101.7
GREEN
10 24 Oct 2021 21:00 Category 1 139 no people 430000 people 16.3, -101.7
GREEN
11 25 Oct 2021 03:00 Category 1 148 84000 people 590000 people 16.8, -101.6
ORANGE
12 25 Oct 2021 09:00 Category 2 167 290000 people 1.7 million people 17.7, -101.9
ORANGE
13 25 Oct 2021 15:00 Category 1 130 240000 people 2.9 million people 18.6, -102.2 Mexico
GREEN
14 25 Oct 2021 21:00 Tropical depression 56 no people no people 20, -102.5 Mexico
GREEN
15 26 Oct 2021 03:00 Tropical depression 37 no people no people 20.4, -103.1 Mexico
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.

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.