Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for COOK-17
in New Caledonia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000348
Name COOK-17
From - To 08 Apr - 11 Apr
Exposed countries New Caledonia
Exposed population 200 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 185 km/h Category 3
Maximum storm surge 0.4 m (10 Apr 04:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (New Caledonia)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 83 km/h 0.4 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 101 km/h 1 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 80 km/h 0.5 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 105 km/h 0.6 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Clouds ‘Roll’ Over Pacific Atolls 4/15/2017 1:25:00 AM.

Source: NASA. Headline: Clouds ‘Roll’ Over Pacific Atolls. Editor’s note: today’s caption is the answer to the April puzzler. Areas near the equator are frequently cloudy, obscuring the view of Earth’s surface from space. April 7, 2017, was
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Nouvelle-Zélande : la tempête passe... sans trop de dégâts 4/14/2017 6:03:00 PM.

Les autorités néo-zélandaises s’attachaient vendredi à recenser les dégâts provoqués par le passage dans la nuit d’une tempête qui a cependant été beaucoup moins violente que ce que les prévisionnistes redoutaient initialement. L’agence mét
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Calls For Natural Disaster Declaration In New Caledonia Follow Cyclone.. 4/14/2017 3:48:00 AM.

Storm claims one life, causes extensive damage to crops. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, April 14, 2017) – There has been a call for a state of natural disaster to be declared in the parts of New Caledonia worst hi
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Un grand blanc repéré en baie des Citrons 4/14/2017 3:00:00 AM.

L’alerte a été donnée par deux baigneurs qui, sur le radeau de la baie des Citrons, ont repéré le prédateur en pleine chasse : un requin blanc de plus de 3 mètres qui est rapidement reparti vers le large. “Ça a duré une trentaine de seconde
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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

Analytical products

Daily Maps:

10/Apr/2017 05:01 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),