Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for FIFTEEN-24
in Cook Islands

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone FIFTEEN-24 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1001051
Name FIFTEEN-24
From - To 15 Feb - 17 Feb
Exposed countries Cook Islands
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 83 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 0.3 m (16 Feb 15:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Cook Is.)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 83 km/h 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 115 km/h n.a. 429 mm 0.5
GFS 104 km/h n.a. 686 mm 0.5
ECMWF 108 km/h n.a. 279 mm 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 (40), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),