Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for LEKIMA-13
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone LEKIMA-13 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 40785
Name LEKIMA-13
From - To 20 Oct - 26 Oct
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 269 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability -- ()

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 130 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Typhoon leaves 2,300 homes without power in south Japan 10/24/2013 1:02:00 PM.

TOKYO: Typhoon Francis left over 2,300 houses on the Tokunoshima and Yoronjima islands in southern Japan's Kagoshima without electricity on Thursday, according to reports which cited Kyushu Electric Power company. The tropical typhoon is mo
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Typhoon Francis hits southern Japan leaving over 2,300 homes without e.. 10/24/2013 11:11:00 AM.

Over 2,300 houses on the Tokunoshima and Yoronjima islands that make up the southern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima were left on Thursday without electricity as a result of the typhoon Francis. This was reported by the Kyushu Electric Pow
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Super Typhoon Lekima is expected to slowly weaken. 10/23/2013 8:30:00 PM.

Posted at 18:18 on 23 October, 2013 UTC. The Guam weather office says Typhoon Lekima is now a super typhoon with winds at its centre of 255 kilometres an hour. But the storm, which has not yet come close to land, is now moving to the northe
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Lekima now a super typhoon but out to sea. 10/23/2013 5:04:00 AM.

Posted at 02:10 on 23 October, 2013 UTC. The Guam weather office says Typhoon Lekima is now a super typhoon with winds at its centre of 255 kilometres an hour. But the storm, which has not yet come close to land, is now moving to the northe
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), (2), INFORM (2),