Overall Red Tropical Cyclone for MORA-17 in Bangladesh, India from 27 May 2017 18:00 UTC to 29 May 2017 18:00 UTC

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Overall Red Tropical Cyclone for MORA-17

in Bangladesh, India

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	TC 1000357
Name	MORA-17
Glide number:	TC-2017-000058-BGD
From - To	27 May - 30 May
Exposed countries	Bangladesh, India
Exposed population	11.3 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	120 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge	1.3 m (30 May 01:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	High (Bangladesh)

GDACS Score

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS JTWC	n.a	2 m	n.a.	2.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	112 km/h	0.7 m	n.a.	0.5
GFS	56 km/h	0.5 m	n.a.	0.5
ECMWF	n.a	0.5 m	n.a.	0.5

Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.

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Meteo assessment

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Latest media headlines

Myanmar to strengthen disaster response systems 6/2/2017 3:27:00 AM.

Major search for 81 people missing after cyclone hits Bangladesh 6/1/2017 9:16:00 AM.

Après le cyclone Mora, des pêcheurs en détresse au Bangladesh 6/1/2017 8:36:00 AM.

In the wake of Cyclone Mora 5/31/2017 8:35:00 PM.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Analytical products

Daily Maps: Bangladesh, Myanmar, India - Tropical Cyclone MORA

30/May/2017 06:05 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (38), WMO (1), INFORM (2), (1),

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