Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for RAQUEL-15
in Solomon Islands

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone RAQUEL-15 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000171
Name RAQUEL-15
From - To 30 Jun - 04 Jul
Exposed countries Solomon Islands
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 111 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 0.1 m (04 Jul 06:00 UTC)
Vulnerability High (Solomon Is.)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 56 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
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
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 16 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Western Pacific spawns four tropical cyclones in a weekSun, 05 Jul 2015 14:42:00 +0200.

After weeks of inactivity, the western Pacific has just spawned four tropical cyclones, two of which will probably become typhoons. In most years, the Philippine Sea grows clusters of thunderstorms, and the atmosphere above is ideal in form
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Chaotic unseasonal storms strike Marshall Islands and Guam as eight sy ... Sat, 04 Jul 2015 07:51:00 +0200.

Residents of the Marshall Islands capital Majuro are recovering after a powerful storm damaged houses and smashed boats on Friday, as an unseasonal typhoon brewed nearby. The system was upgraded to a tropical storm on Saturday afternoon and
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Chaotic unseasonal storms strike Marshall Islands and Guam as eight sy ... Sat, 04 Jul 2015 07:29:00 +0200.

Residents of the Marshall Islands capital Majuro are recovering after a powerful storm damaged houses and smashed boats on Friday, as an unseasonal typhoon brewed nearby. The system was upgraded to a tropical storm Saturday afternoon and na
...(more)
Chaotic unseasonal storms strike Marshall Islands and GuamSat, 04 Jul 2015 07:19:00 +0200.

Residents of the Marshall Islands capital Majuro are recovering after a powerful storm damaged houses and smashed boats on Friday, as an unseasonal typhoon brewed nearby. The system was upgraded to a tropical storm Saturday afternoon and na
...(more)

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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 (46), (2), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),