Overall Orange Tropical Cyclone for PAMELA-21 in Mexico from 10 Oct 2021 09:00 UTC to 11 Oct 2021 09:00 UTC

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Overall Orange Tropical Cyclone for PAMELA-21

in Mexico

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone PAMELA-21 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 1000840
Name	PAMELA-21
Glide number:	CE-2021-000162-SOM
From - To	10 Oct - 14 Oct
Exposed countries	Mexico
Exposed population	130 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	130 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge	0.5 m (13 Oct 12:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Medium (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS NOAA	n.a	0.5 m	n.a.	1.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	162 km/h	0.3 m	404 mm	0.5
GFS	130 km/h	0.4 m	440 mm	0.5
ECMWF	76 km/h	0.4 m	386 mm	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

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Record rainfall in Ottawa 10/16/2021 11:44:00 PM.

Record rainfall in Ottawa 10/16/2021 7:45:00 PM.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Analytical products

Daily Maps:

12/Oct/2021 04:22 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), (1),

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