Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for MUIFA-11 in Japan from 28 Jul 2011 06:00 UTC to 08 Aug 2011 12:00 UTC

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Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for MUIFA-11

in Japan

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone MUIFA-11 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 25110
Name	MUIFA-11
From - To	28 Jul - 08 Aug
Exposed countries	Japan
Exposed population	1.2 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	286 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge	n.a.
Vulnerability	Low ()

GDACS Score

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
JRC	n.a	n.a.	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	n.a	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.

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