Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for JOSEPHINE-20
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone JOSEPHINE-20 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000694
Name JOSEPHINE-20
From - To 11 Aug - 16 Aug
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 74 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 0.1 m (15 Aug 17:00 UTC)
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 56 km/h 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
GFS 112 km/h 0.9 m 463 mm 0.5
ECMWF 101 km/h 0.5 m 695 mm 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 478 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Obvious necessityThu, 20 Aug 2020 06:03:00 +0200.

A weather system east of the Eastern Caribbean developed into Tropical Depression 13 last night and should affect the local area by late Friday. Although early indications were that this system might pass to the north like Tropical Storm Jo
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Forecast Update for the 2020 Hurricane SeasonWed, 19 Aug 2020 02:58:00 +0200.

By Yanet Diaz. HAVANA TIMES – Forecasts for hurricane seasons are normally issued at the beginning of the season in May or June. However, in August, an update of this forecast is usually forthcoming, which provides more accurate information
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Atlantic hurricane season: Where do tropical storms form in August? - ... Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:17:00 +0200.

On average, only two named storms would have formed by the start of the month of August. This season, we were at nine when the month got underway. Historically an entire hurricane season will only produce 12 named storms, but as of Aug. 18,
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Hurricane season coming back to life with two systems brewing in the A ... Tue, 18 Aug 2020 18:55:00 +0200.

Tropical Storms Josephine and Kyle dissipated over the weekend, leaving the Atlantic Ocean free of storms. But that may not be the case for long. A pair of tropical waves with increasing odds of development are traversing the ocean to start
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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), INFORM (1), (1),