Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for MUIFA-17 Off-shore from 24 Apr 2017 18:00 UTC to 27 Apr 2017 18:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for MUIFA-17

Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	TC 1000352
Name	MUIFA-17
From - To	24 Apr - 27 Apr
Exposed countries	Off-shore
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	93 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge	n.a.
Vulnerability	--

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS JTWC	46 km/h	n.a.	n.a.	0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	97 km/h	0.5 m	n.a.	0.5
GFS	46 km/h	0.3 m	n.a.	0.5
ECMWF	78 km/h	0.3 m	n.a.	0.5

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