Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for OLAF-15
Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000229
Name OLAF-15
From - To 15 Oct - 27 Oct
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 250 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 74 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Partly sunny today with chance of showers 10/27/2015 12:13:00 PM.

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Tropical Storm Olaf expected to weaken in Pacific 10/27/2015 11:51:00 AM.

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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), INFORM (1), (1),