Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for GABEKILE-20
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone GABEKILE-20 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000654
Name GABEKILE-20
From - To 15 Feb - 18 Feb
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 139 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 56 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 176 km/h 0 m 525 mm 0.5
GFS 133 km/h 0.1 m 589 mm 0.5
ECMWF 97 km/h 0.1 m 550 mm 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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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

NASA Finds Wind Shear Doing in Tropical Storm Gabekile 2/18/2020 7:45:00 PM.

Winds outside of Tropical Storm Gabekile are ripping the storm apart. Winds outside of Tropical Storm Gabekile are ripping the storm apart. NASA’s Aqua satellite provided a visible image of the storm that showed strong northwesterly wind
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NASA finds wind shear doing in Tropical Storm Gabekile 2/18/2020 7:27:00 PM.

IMAGE: On Feb. 18, 2020, the MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite provided a visible image of the dissipating Tropical Cyclone Gabekile in the Southern Indian Ocean. Credit: Credit: NASA NRL. Winds outside of Tropical
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Météo : Gabekile s’est intensifiée en un cyclone tropical 2/16/2020 8:50:00 AM.

Selon les prévisions de la station météorologique de Vaocas, la forte tempête tropicale GABEKILE s’est intensifiée en un cyclone tropical durant la nuit de samedi à dimanche. A 4h ce matin, le cyclone tropical GABEKILE était centrée autour
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What Happens When the News Is Gone? 1/27/2020 12:14:00 PM.

He added, “I’m an open book, and my records are an open book. But I find it very frustrating—and, quite frankly, somewhat insulting—to spend my time or my staff’s time providing information to citizens or people or whatever, and, when push
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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 (38), INFORM (1), (1),