Overall Red Tropical Cyclone alert for KALMAEGI-14 in Philippines, China, Viet Nam from 12 Sep 2014 06:00 UTC to 15 Sep 2014 12:00 UTC

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Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for KALMAEGI-14

in Philippines, China, Viet Nam

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone KALMAEGI-14 can have a high humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 47823
Name	KALMAEGI-14
From - To	12 Sep - 16 Sep
Exposed countries	Philippines, China, Viet Nam
Exposed population	7.2 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	185 km/h Category 3
Maximum storm surge	2.9 m (16 Sep 07:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	High (Philippines)

GDACS Score

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
JRC	111 km/h	2.9 m	n.a.	1.5
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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Latest media headlines

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Seven killed as typhoon Kalmaegi hits china 9/18/2014 5:57:00 PM.

18.09.2014 21:13 Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed 7 people in China. One person is reported missing. The typhoon has affected 6 million people in China. Provinces of Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region are among the areas wors

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Urgent support provided for typhoon Kalmaegi victims 9/18/2014 4:50:00 PM.

The Vietnam Red Cross has pledged support to eight families who lost their members as a result of typhoon Kalmaegi in the northern province of Lang Son.

EVN works to restore power for Kalmaegi-affected customers 9/18/2014 3:19:00 PM.

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) is working hard to fix the damage caused by typhoon Kalmaegi, striving to resume power supply to all of its customers by September 19.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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Daily Maps: Philippines, China, Vietnam - Tropical Cyclones KALMAEGI and FUNG-WONG

18/Sep/2014 04:07 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),

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