Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for DEBBIE-17 in Australia on 24 Mar 2017 18:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for DEBBIE-17

in Australia

24 Mar 2017 18 UTC

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Impact Single TC

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Impact based on all weather systems in the area

Impact

Tropical Cyclone DEBBIE-17 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed,exposed population and vulnerability.

Meteorological source	GDACS
Exposed countries	Australia
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	213 km/h
Maximum storm surge	1.6 m (28 Mar 02:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Low (Australia)

GDACS Score

GDACS alert score for Tropical Cyclones is 0.5 (GREEN Alert), 1.5 (ORANGE Alert), 2.5 (RED Alert)
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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
Current	176 km/h	1.6 m	n.a.	0.5
Overall	213 km/h	1.6 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

176 km/h Current Max.

Up to 220000 people in Category 1 strength or higher (see SSHS)

Impact Timeline

Alert	N°	Date (UTC)	Max Winds (km/h)	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Population in Cat 1. or higher	Countries
	1	24 Mar 2017 18:00	176	380 thousand	220 thousand	Australia

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	24 Mar 2017 18:00	Tropical storm	74	no people	no people	-17.2, 152
1	25 Mar 2017 06:00	Tropical storm	83	no people	no people	-17.9, 151.9
1	25 Mar 2017 18:00	Tropical storm	102	no people	120000 people	-18.5, 151.3	Australia
1	26 Mar 2017 06:00	Category 1	130	no people	160000 people	-18.9, 150.4	Australia
1	26 Mar 2017 18:00	Category 2	176	210000 people	380000 people	-19.1, 149.6	Australia
1	27 Mar 2017 18:00	Category 2	176	210000 people	260000 people	-19.6, 147.1	Australia
1	28 Mar 2017 18:00	Tropical storm	93	no people	4600 people	-20.1, 145	Australia
1	29 Mar 2017 18:00	Tropical depression	56	no people	no people	-21.3, 143	Australia

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
Australia

Provinces

Region Province	Country
Queensland	Australia

Populated places

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population
Bowen	Queensland	Australia	City	11000 people
Ayr	Queensland	Australia	City	9000 people
Home Hill	Queensland	Australia	City	-
Townsville	Queensland	Australia	Major city	140000 people
Charters Towners	Queensland	Australia	City	-

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)
Bowen	ZBO	8	Civ.	Unpaved	Yes	4400
Daydream Island	DDI	unknown				0
Ayr	AYR	12	Civ.	Paved	No	3000
Townsville	TSV	5	Civ.	Paved	Yes	7900
Charters Towers	CXT	291	Civ.	Paved	No	3000
Miners Lake	MRL	unknown				0
Mt. Full Stop	MFL	unknown				0

Ports

Name	LOCODE	Country
Bowen	AUZBO	Coral Sea Islands
Abbot Point	AUABP	Coral Sea Islands
Townsville	AUTSV	Coral Sea Islands

Dams

Reservoir	Dam Name	River	Year
	Ross River	Ross	1987

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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

1.6 m

The maximum Storm surge height is 1.6m in Lethebrook, Australia. This height is estimated for 28 Mar 2017 02:00 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 (57 locations). Calculation based on advisory number 8 of 28 Mar 2017 06:00:00 UTC. (Simulation using 0.5 minute resolution)

Alert	Date (UTC)	Name	Country	Storm surge height (m)
	28 Mar 2017 02:00	Lethebrook	Australia	1.6
	28 Mar 2017 01:00	Cannonvale	Australia	1.6
	28 Mar 2017 01:00	Airlie	Australia	1.6
	28 Mar 2017 02:00	Banana Pocket	Australia	1.6
	28 Mar 2017 02:00	Midgeton	Australia	1.5
	27 Mar 2017 20:00	Te Kowai	Australia	1.0
	27 Mar 2017 20:00	Etowri	Australia	1.0
	27 Mar 2017 20:00	Nindaroo	Australia	1.0
	27 Mar 2017 20:00	Bucasia	Australia	1.0
	27 Mar 2017 20:00	Eimeo	Australia	1.0
	27 Mar 2017 20:00	Andergrove	Australia	1.0
	27 Mar 2017 20:00	Blacks Beach	Australia	1.0
	28 Mar 2017 01:00	Seaforth	Australia	1.0
	27 Mar 2017 18:00	Glenella	Australia	0.8
	27 Mar 2017 20:00	Slade Point	Australia	0.8
	27 Mar 2017 20:00	Amhurst	Australia	0.8
	27 Mar 2017 18:00	Bakers Creek	Australia	0.8
	27 Mar 2017 18:00	North Mackay	Australia	0.8
	27 Mar 2017 18:00	Mackay	Australia	0.8
	27 Mar 2017 18:00	Cremorne	Australia	0.8
	27 Mar 2017 18:00	Rosella	Australia	0.8
	27 Mar 2017 18:00	Chelona	Australia	0.8
	27 Mar 2017 19:00	Taffy Islet	Australia	0.8
	27 Mar 2017 20:00	Carmila	Australia	0.8
	27 Mar 2017 20:00	Hay Point	Australia	0.7
	27 Mar 2017 19:00	Flaggy Rock	Australia	0.7
	27 Mar 2017 18:00	Alligator Creek	Australia	0.7
	27 Mar 2017 19:00	Elalie	Australia	0.7
	27 Mar 2017 19:00	Clairview	Australia	0.6
	27 Mar 2017 19:00	Kalarka	Australia	0.6
	27 Mar 2017 19:00	Saint Lawrence	Australia	0.6
	27 Mar 2017 18:00	Queens Beach	Australia	0.4
	27 Mar 2017 03:00	Keppel Sands	Australia	0.4
	27 Mar 2017 18:00	Inveroona	Australia	0.4
	27 Mar 2017 18:00	Bowen	Australia	0.4
	27 Mar 2017 18:00	Yumbabullo	Australia	0.4
	27 Mar 2017 05:00	Farnborough	Australia	0.4
	27 Mar 2017 05:00	Yeppoon	Australia	0.4
	27 Mar 2017 05:00	Emu Park	Australia	0.4
	27 Mar 2017 06:00	Parsons Point	Australia	0.4
	27 Mar 2017 07:00	Port Alma	Australia	0.4
	27 Mar 2017 06:00	Southend	Australia	0.3
	27 Mar 2017 16:00	Merinda	Australia	0.3
	27 Mar 2017 16:00	Delta	Australia	0.3
	27 Mar 2017 16:00	Bootooloo	Australia	0.3
	27 Mar 2017 18:00	Alva	Australia	0.3
	27 Mar 2017 17:00	Carstairs	Australia	0.2
	27 Mar 2017 17:00	Jarvisfield	Australia	0.2
	27 Mar 2017 17:00	Rita Island	Australia	0.2
	27 Mar 2017 05:00	Targinie	Australia	0.2
	27 Mar 2017 05:00	Beecher	Australia	0.2
	27 Mar 2017 05:00	Gladstone	Australia	0.2
	27 Mar 2017 05:00	Toolooa	Australia	0.2
	27 Mar 2017 05:00	Boyne Island	Australia	0.2
	27 Mar 2017 05:00	Benaraby	Australia	0.2
	27 Mar 2017 05:00	Bustard Head	Australia	0.1
	27 Mar 2017 06:00	Seventeen Seventy	Australia	0.1

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