Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for LOWELL-20 Off-shore from 20 Sep 2020 21:00 UTC to 21 Sep 2020 15:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for LOWELL-20

Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	TC 1000722
Name	LOWELL-20
From - To	20 Sep - 25 Sep
Exposed countries	Off-shore
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	83 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability	--

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS NOAA	56 km/h	0 m	n.a.	0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	126 km/h	1 m	535 mm	0.5
GFS	108 km/h	0.5 m	591 mm	0.5
ECMWF	79 km/h	0.5 m	736 mm	0.5

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NASA finds wind shear displacing Lowell’s strongest storms 9/25/2020 6:39:00 PM.

NASA’s Aqua satellite provided an infrared view of Tropical Storm Lowell that revealed the effects of outside winds battering the storm. Wind shear occurs when winds at different levels of the atmosphere push against the rotating cylinder o

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NASA finds wind shear displacing Lowell's strongest storms 9/25/2020 5:02:00 PM.

NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared view of Tropical Storm Lowell that revealed the effects of outside winds battering the storm.

NASA analyzes Tropical Storm Lowell’s very cold cloud tops 9/22/2020 9:15:00 PM.

NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Tropical Storm Lowell using infrared light to determine the strength of the storm. Infrared imagery revealed that the strongest storms were around Lowell’s center and in its southern quadrant beca

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NASA analyzes Tropical Storm Lowell's very cold cloud tops 9/22/2020 6:42:00 PM.

NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Tropical Storm Lowell using infrared light to determine the strength of the storm. Infrared imagery revealed that the strongest storms were around Lowell's center and in its southern quadrant beca

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