Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for NANGKA-15
in Japan

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000176
Name NANGKA-15
From - To 03 Jul - 18 Jul
Exposed countries Japan
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 259 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge 0.6 m (16 Jul 20:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Japan)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 46 km/h 0.6 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

A lesson in infrared light - looking at three tropical cyclones 7/20/2015 1:51:00 PM.

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Nangka (left) on July 15 at 12:35 p.m. EDT, Hurricane Dolores at 4:53 p.m. EDT and Tropical Storm Enrique at 6:35 p.m. EDT as the AIRS instrument gathered temperature data. Credit: NASA JPL, Ed Olse
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Indonesia: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot.. 7/20/2015 12:16:00 PM.

INDONESIA. Drought and extreme cold weather since early Jul in remote and inland Papua Province, particularly Lani Jaya and Puncak Jaya Districts, has created acute food insecurity. Eleven people died, including seven children and 20,160 ho
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La revue écolo de la semaine : typhon Nangka, alimentation bio, Sebast.. 7/19/2015 1:06:00 PM.

Comment se tenir au courant de toute l'actu environnementale ? C'est simple, tous les samedis, leparisien.fr compile les meilleurs sujets écolo de la semaine. Anaïs Thiébaux de l'Agence Créative CulturElle | 18 Juil. 2015, 11h10 | MAJ : 18
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350,000 Japanese urged to evacuate as Typhoon Nangka strikes 7/18/2015 9:57:00 AM.

13:03, 17 July, 2015 YEREVAN, JULY 17, ARMENPRESS. Powerful Typhoon Nangka was barrelling towards the Japanese mainland early today after killing at least two people on the island of Shikoku as authorities urged more than 350,000 residents
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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 (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),