Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for DANAS-25
in Taiwan, China

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone DANAS-25 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1001175
Name DANAS-25
From - To 04 Jul - 08 Jul
Exposed countries Taiwan, China
Exposed population 11.4 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 167 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 1.5 m (07 Jul 12:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Taiwan)

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 167 km/h 1.5 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 184 km/h 0.6 m 1373 mm 1.5
GFS 144 km/h 0.8 m 675 mm 0.5
ECMWF 90 km/h 0.8 m 795 mm 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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China, Taiwan - Tropical cyclone FIVE (ECHO 09 Jul 2025)Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:04

  • A new tropical cyclone named FIVE is moving westward over the South China Sea toward south-eastern China. On 4 July at 00:00 UTC, its center is located over the sea, approximately 320 km southwest of Taiwan, with maximum sustained winds of 46 km/h (tropical depression).
  • FIVE is expected to intensify, change direction, and move northeastward on 5 July. After that, it will pass close to the western coast of Taiwan and is projected to reach the eastern coast of Zhejiang Province, eastern China by 8 July.
  • For the next 72 hours, moderate to locally heavy rainfall is expected across most of Taiwan, southeastern China, and northern Philippines.

 

China, Taiwan - Tropical cyclone DANAS (ECHO 12 Jul 2025)Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:07

  • A new tropical storm named DANAS formed in the northern South China Sea in the morning (UTC) of 4 July and started moving north-east toward Taiwan and the Taiwan strait, strengthening. It made landfall over central-western Taiwan in the afternoon of 6 July, with maximum sustained winds up to 167 km/h (typhoon). On 7 July at 0.00 its centre was located over the East China Sea, approximately 25 km north of the far northern Taiwan coast, with maximum sustained winds of 83 km/h (tropical storm).
  • Media report, as of 7 July, two fatalities and more than 330 injured people across Taiwan.
  • DANAS is expected to continue northward and to turn westward, making a second landfall over the Wenzhou city area, central-eastern China in the morning of 8 July, with maximum sustained winds up to 74 km/h (tropical storm).
  • Over the next 48 hours, heavy rainfall, strong winds, and storm surges are forecast over the entirety of Taiwan and over central-eastern China.
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (2), TWB (1), INFORM (2),