Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for FRANCES-17
Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000353
Name FRANCES-17
From - To 27 Apr - 30 Apr
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 139 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 0.2 m (29 Apr 21:00 UTC)
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 65 km/h 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 129 km/h 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 46 km/h 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF n.a 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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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 (38), INFORM (1), (1),