Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for JEBI-18 in Japan from 27 Aug 2018 06:00 UTC to 04 Sep 2018 12:00 UTC

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Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for JEBI-18

in Japan

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone JEBI-18 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 1000493
Name	JEBI-18
From - To	27 Aug - 04 Sep
Exposed countries	Japan
Exposed population	29.8 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	287 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge	1.2 m (04 Sep 08:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Low (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS JTWC	n.a	1.2 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	68 km/h	0.8 m	n.a.	0.5

Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.

Virtual OSOCC

Meteo assessment

Satellite products

Analytical products

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Emirates halts all flights to Osaka, Japan 9/8/2018 10:36:00 AM.

Séisme au Japon: le bilan s'alourdit à 30 morts 9/8/2018 9:57:00 AM.

Typhoon-hit Kansai airport partially resumes int'l flights 9/8/2018 9:14:00 AM.

VIDÉO - Séisme au Japon : le bilan monte à 30 morts 9/8/2018 9:07:00 AM.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Analytical products

Daily Maps: Japan - Tropical cyclone JEBI UPDATE

05/Sep/2018 07:13 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (38), WMO (1), INFORM (2), (1),

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