Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for TORAJI-13 in Japan from 02 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC to 04 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for TORAJI-13

in Japan

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	TC 39782
Name	TORAJI-13
From - To	02 Sep - 04 Sep
Exposed countries	Japan
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	101 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge	n.a.
Vulnerability	Low (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
JRC	74 km/h	n.a.	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.

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Torrential rain warnings issued as typhoon makes landfall in Kyushu 9/4/2013 7:05:00 AM.

Typhoon Toraji made landfall on the southern edge of Kyushu early Wednesday and was expected to march northeast, prompting storm warnings chiefly for the southern ...

Tropical storm Toraji is forecast to strike Japan at about 06:00 GMT o.. 9/3/2013 10:31:00 AM.

Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Center suggest that the point of landfall will be near 31.3 N, 130.2 E. Toraji is expected to bring 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of around 83 km/h (51 mph).

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