Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for LESLIE-18
in Portugal

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone LESLIE-18 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000510
Name LESLIE-18
From - To 23 Sep - 13 Oct
Exposed countries Portugal
Exposed population 400 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 148 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability Low (Portugal)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 111 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 126 km/h 1.8 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 124 km/h 1.4 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 112 km/h 0.9 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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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 (38), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),