Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for DONNA-17
in New Caledonia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000354
Name DONNA-17
Glide number: TC-2017-000045-VUT
From - To 02 May - 10 May
Exposed countries New Caledonia
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 213 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 0.8 m (07 May 02:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (New Caledonia)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 65 km/h 0.4 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 89 km/h 0.5 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 90 km/h 0.5 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 94 km/h 0.5 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Analytical products

Daily Maps:

10/May/2017 04:10 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (38), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),