Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for MARIA-24 in Japan from 07 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC to 10 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC

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Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for MARIA-24

in Japan

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone MARIA-24 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 1001079
Name	MARIA-24
From - To	07 Aug - 12 Aug
Exposed countries	Japan
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	130 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge	0.4 m (12 Aug 02:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Low (Japan)

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS JTWC	130 km/h	0.5 m	n.a.	0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	137 km/h	1.1 m	490 mm	0.5
GFS	122 km/h	0.9 m	422 mm	0.5
ECMWF	104 km/h	0.9 m	471 mm	0.5

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Japan - Tropical cyclone MARIA (ECHO 17 Aug 2024)Mon, 12 Aug 2024 11:01

Tropical cyclone MARIA formed over the northern Philippine Sea on 7 August and started moving north toward northern Honshu island (the main island of Japan), strenghtening. On 12 August at 6.00 UTC its centre was located inland over the Miyagi Prefecture (far northern Honshu island), with maximum sustained winds of 82 km/h (tropical storm).
On the forecast track it is expected to continue moving northwestward inland and to enter into the eastern Sea of Japan on 12-13 August, weakening into a tropical depression.
Over the next 72 hours, heavy rainfall and strong winds are forecast over central and northern Honshu island.

Japan - Tropical cyclone MARIA, update (ECHO 18 Aug 2024)Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:16

Tropical cyclone MARIA passed over over northern Miyagi, Iwate and Akita prefectures (far northern Honshu island, the main island of Japan) on 12 August in the morning (UTC) as a tropical storm and dissipated over the eastern Sea of Japan between 12 August in the evening and 13 August very early in the morning.
After its passage, media report, as of 13 August, approximately 2,000 evacuated people across the Iwate prefecture and evacuation advices for around 170,000 people across Iwate, Miyagi and Aomori prefectures.
Over the next 48 hours, heavy rainfall and strong winds are forecast over central and northern Honshu island and over the central and southern neighbouring Hokkaido island.

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