Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for PRAPIROON-24
in Viet Nam, China

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone PRAPIROON-24 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1001071
Name PRAPIROON-24
Glide number: TC-2024-000126-VNM
From - To 19 Jul - 23 Jul
Exposed countries Viet Nam, China
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 111 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 1 m (22 Jul 21:00 UTC)
Vulnerability High (Vietnam)

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 83 km/h 1 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 137 km/h 1.6 m 682 mm 0.5
GFS 119 km/h 0.8 m 706 mm 0.5
ECMWF 119 km/h 1.1 m 1000 mm 0.5
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China, Vietnam - Tropical storm PRAPIROON, update (ECHO 27 Jul 2024)Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:50

  • Tropical storm PRAPIROON passed over the Hainan Island, southern China on 22 July and continued north-west over the Gulf of Tonkin toward the border area between south-western China and north-eastern Vietnam, strengthening. It made landfall over this area on 22 July very late in the evening (UTC), with maximum sustained winds up to 102 km/h. On 23 July at 0.00 UTC, its centre was located inland in Vietnam, close to the coast, near the border area with south-western China, with maximum sustained winds of 83 km/.
  • Media report, as of 23 July, approximately 6,000 isolated people across the Cat Ba and Co To islands, northern Vietnam.
  • On 23-24 July, PRAPIROON is forecasted moving inland over the border area between south-western China and north-eastern Vietnam, further weakening as a tropical depression.
  • Over the next 48 hours, very heavy rainfall, strong winds and storm surges are forecasted over Hainan and northern Vietnam.
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (2), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),