Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for SAM-21
in Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone SAM-21 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000833
Name SAM-21
From - To 22 Sep - 05 Oct
Exposed countries Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 241 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 0.2 m (05 Oct 15:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Greenland)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 130 km/h 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 248 km/h 0.8 m 662 mm 0.5
GFS 256 km/h 0.8 m 548 mm 0.5
ECMWF 184 km/h 0.9 m 364 mm 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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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (2), INFORM (2),