Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for PAKHAR-17
in China, Philippines

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone PAKHAR-17 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000390
Name PAKHAR-17
From - To 24 Aug - 27 Aug
Exposed countries China, Philippines
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 139 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 1.3 m (27 Aug 10:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (China)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 102 km/h 1.6 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 82 km/h 0.9 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 55 km/h 0.6 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 51 km/h 0.6 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 244 | About casualties: 34 | Last hour: 0

More bad weather on the way as another tropical storm threatens Hong K ... Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:54:00 +0200.

. Another tropical storm is brewing near the South China Sea but it is still too early to tell whether it will hit Hong Kong head-on, forecasters say. What is clear however is that Hongkongers can expect another weekend of poor weather due
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Bad weather likely on weekend as tropical storm fearedWed, 30 Aug 2017 10:13:00 +0200.

Some weather forecasters expect a tropical storm to form in the coming days in the vicinity of the South China Sea, while the Hong Kong Observatory says it is too early to tell whether it will hit the city. The European Center for Medium-Ra
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Typhoon-hit Macao to resume group tourism serviceWed, 30 Aug 2017 04:18:00 +0200.

Macao's tourism industry is expected to resume tour group arrangements from Sept. 2 after being hit by two typhoons, the tourism office said on Tuesday. Tourism office of the Macao Special Administrative Region government held a meeting Tue
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Typhoon Pakhar kills 3 in South ChinaWed, 30 Aug 2017 04:01:00 +0200.

Pakhar, the 14th typhoon of the year, has left three people dead in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, according to local civil affairs department Tuesday. Nine counties in Guangxi were hit by Pakhar, which landed in nearby Gu
...(more)

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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), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),