Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for ROANU-16
in India, Myanmar, Bangladesh

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone ROANU-16 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000262
Name ROANU-16
From - To 18 May - 21 May
Exposed countries India, Myanmar, Bangladesh
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 102 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 2.7 m (21 May 09:00 UTC)
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 83 km/h 2.7 m n.a. 1.5
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.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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2016 storm names 5/25/2016 4:53:00 AM.

Here are the storm names selected by the National Hurricane Center. A storm is named once it reaches tropical storm status. Alex. Bonnie. Colin. Danielle. Earl. Fiona. Gaston. Hermine. Igor. Julia. Karl. Lisa. Matthew. Nicole. Otto. Paula.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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Daily Maps:

23/May/2016 02:41 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), INFORM (1), (1),