Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for MIRINAE-21
in Japan

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone MIRINAE-21 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000808
Name MIRINAE-21
From - To 04 Aug - 09 Aug
Exposed countries Japan
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 93 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 0.4 m (05 Aug 10:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Japan)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 83 km/h 0.4 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 97 km/h 0.6 m 493 mm 0.5
GFS 83 km/h 0.7 m 340 mm 0.5
ECMWF 101 km/h 0.7 m 620 mm 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Japan - Tropical Depression FOURTEEN (ECHO 05 Aug 2021)Thu, 05 Aug 2021 16:45

  • Tropical Depression FOURTEEN is moving over southern East China Sea, towards the Okinawa Islands (Ryukyu Archipelago, southern Japan). On 5 August, at 0.00 UTC, its centre was about 50 km west of Kumejima Island, and 140 km west of Okinawa Island, with maximum sustained winds of 46 km/h.
  • FOURTEEN is forecast to strengthen, as it moves east-northeast, passing over the Okinawa Islands on night of 5-6 August, with maximum sustained winds up to 65 km/h (tropical storm), before moving north-east over the northwest Pacific Ocean.
  • On 5-6 August, heavy rainfall, strong winds and high waves are forecast over Ryukyu Archipelago, including the Okinawa Islands.
     
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Tokyo [Japan], August 8 (ANI/Sputnik): Nearly 29,000 people in the Japanese prefecture of Chiba near Tokyo have received evacuation orders due to typhoon Mirinae approaching the country's eastern coast, national media reported on Sunday. As
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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