Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for LINFA-15
in Philippines, China

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone LINFA-15 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000175
Name LINFA-15
From - To 02 Jul - 09 Jul
Exposed countries Philippines, China
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 157 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 1 m (09 Jul 13:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 74 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

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Observatory feeling under the weather 7/10/2015 8:02:00 PM.

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Linfa makes landfall in Lufeng 7/10/2015 12:26:00 PM.

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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2),