Overall Red Tropical Cyclone alert for HAIYAN-13 in China, Viet Nam, Philippines, Palau from 04 Nov 2013 00:00 UTC to 06 Nov 2013 18:00 UTC

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Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for HAIYAN-13

in China, Viet Nam, Philippines, Palau

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	TC 41058
Name	HAIYAN-13
Glide number:	TC-2013-000139-PHL
From - To	04 Nov - 11 Nov
Exposed countries	China, Viet Nam, Philippines, Palau
Exposed population	13.7 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	315 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge	2.3 m (08 Nov 00:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	High (China)

GDACS Score

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
JRC	111 km/h	2.3 m	n.a.	1.5
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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Meteo assessment

Satellite products

Analytical products

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Analytical products

Daily Maps: Philippines - Tropical Cyclone HAIYAN - UPDATE

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC (2), EC-JRC (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),

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