Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for MARIA-17
in Virgin IslandsU.S.GuadeloupePuerto RicoDominicaTurks and Caicos IslandsDominican RepublicMartiniqueAntigua and BarbudaMontserratSaint Kitts and NevisAnguillaBritish

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone MARIA-17 can have a high humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000404
Name MARIA-17
Glide number: TC-2017-000136-GLP
From - To 16 Sep - 30 Sep
Exposed countries Virgin IslandsU.S.GuadeloupePuerto RicoDominicaTurks and Caicos IslandsDominican RepublicMartiniqueAntigua and BarbudaMontserratSaint Kitts and NevisAnguillaBritish
Exposed population 2.7 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 278 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge 1.1 m (20 Sep 11:00 UTC)
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 83 km/h 0.8 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 291 km/h 0.6 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 185 km/h 0.5 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 172 km/h 1 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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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 (38), INFORM (1), (1),