Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for OSWALD-13 Off-shore from 21 Jan 2013 06:00 UTC to 18:00

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for OSWALD-13

Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone OSWALD-13 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 35101
Name	OSWALD-13
From - To	21 Jan - 21 Jan
Exposed countries	Off-shore
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	74 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge	n.a.
Vulnerability	-- ()

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
JRC	64 km/h	n.a.	n.a.	0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	n.a	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
GFS	n.a	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
ECMWF	n.a	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.

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