Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for FITOW-13
in China, Japan

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone FITOW-13 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 40330
Name FITOW-13
From - To 30 Sep - 06 Oct
Exposed countries China, Japan
Exposed population 10.2 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 195 km/h Category 3
Maximum storm surge 1.9 m (06 Oct 19:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (China)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 101 km/h 1.9 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Chine : la ville de Yuyao sous l’eau, les habitants piégés 10/10/2013 9:14:00 AM.

Comme nous venons de le voir, le typhon Fitow a causé des inondations dans la ville de Yuyao, dans l’est de la Chine. Plus de 830 000 personnes ont été touchées, la plupart subit des coupures d’électricité et une pénurie d’eau et de nourrit
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Typhoon Fitow brings heavy downpours to E.China 10/10/2013 8:30:00 AM.

BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Torrential rains brought by typhoon Fitow have been lashing the city of Yuyao in east China's Zhejiang Province, inundating roads, houses and causing breaches at river dikes. 70 percent of the downtown area h
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Typhoon Fitow kills 10 in eastern China 10/9/2013 9:37:00 PM.

Typhoon Fitow has brought heavy rains to eastern China, with 10 people reported to have died and hundreds of thousands still without power.
Typhoon Fitow kills 10 in east China province 10/9/2013 9:22:00 PM.

Ten people have died after a typhoon slammed into China's east coast, including a family of three who were all killed by electric shocks, state media reported Wednesday.

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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 (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),