Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for GASTON-22 in Portugal from 20 Sep 2022 15:00 UTC to 21 Sep 2022 09:00 UTC

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Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for GASTON-22

in Portugal

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone GASTON-22 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 1000919
Name	GASTON-22
From - To	20 Sep - 26 Sep
Exposed countries	Portugal
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	102 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability	Low (Portugal)

GDACS Score

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS NOAA	102 km/h	0.1 m	n.a.	0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	122 km/h	1.3 m	548 mm	0.5
GFS	n.a	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
ECMWF	212 km/h	1.7 m	375 mm	0.5

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