Overall Orange Tropical Cyclone alert for FILIPO-24 in Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Malawi from 03 Mar 2024 06:00 UTC to 10 Mar 2024 12:00 UTC

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Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for FILIPO-24

in Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Malawi

Meteorological source:

WMO-RSMC La Réunion
Primary source
GDACS JTWC

Impact Single TC

Impact based on all weather systems in the area

Impact

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

Meteorological source	WMO/RSMC La Réunion - Meteo France
Glide number:	TC-2024-000032-MOZ
Exposed countries	Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Malawi
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	158 km/h
Maximum storm surge	n.a.
Vulnerability	High (Mozambique)

GDACS Score

GDACS alert score for Tropical Cyclones is 0.5 (GREEN Alert), 1.5 (ORANGE Alert), 2.5 (RED Alert)
For more info on GDACS alert score click here.

	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
Current	63 km/h	n.a.	n.a.	1.5
Overall	158 km/h	0.0 m	n.a.	1.5
Maximum winds, storm surge, rainfall (Current: over the next 72 h, Overall: entire TC track) based on WMO/RSMC La Réunion - Meteo France impact

Joint Pilot Activity: EC-JRC,WMO/RSMC La Réunion-Meteo France

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Wind

63 km/h Current Max.

Up to 10.7 million people in Tropical Storm strength or higher (see SSHS)

Impact Timeline

N°	Date (UTC)	Max Winds (km/h)	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Population in Cat 1. or higher	Countries
1	03 Mar 2024 06:00	63	No people	No people
2	03 Mar 2024 12:00	116	3 million	No people	Madagascar
3	10 Mar 2024 06:00	63	No people	No people
4	10 Mar 2024 12:00	63	10.7 million	No people	Mozambique, Malawi

Bulletin Timeline

N°	Date (UTC)	Category (SSHS)	Max winds (km/h)	Population in Cat.1 or higher	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Category (WMO/RSMC) **	Max winds (km/h) (WMO/RSMC)	Location (lat, lon)
1	03 Mar 2024 06:00	Tropical storm	63	no people	no people	Tropical Depression	56	-11.8, 51.6
2	03 Mar 2024 12:00	Tropical storm	63	no people	no people	Tropical Depression	56	-12.3, 50.8
3	10 Mar 2024 06:00	Tropical storm	63	no people	no people	Tropical Depression	56	-20.3, 39.7
4	10 Mar 2024 12:00	Tropical storm	63	no people	10.7 million people	Tropical Depression	56	-20.2, 39
4	10 Mar 2024 18:00	Tropical depression	43	no people	no people	Tropical Disturbance	38	-20.2, 38.2

Tropical disturbance/Weak low pressure area/Remnant low (Vmax < 51 km/h), see WMO

Actual track of the current bulletin

The alert for forecast greater than 3 days is limited to Orange level.

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Exposed population - AoIs

Exposed population in the potential affected countries, provinces and populated places

Countries

Country	Population in Tropical Storm or higher strength
Mozambique	10.3 million people
Malawi	260000 people

Provinces

Region Province	Country	Population in Tropical Storm or higher strength
Zambezia	Mozambique	4.5 million people
Sofala	Mozambique	2.4 million people
Nampula	Mozambique	1.1 million people
Inhambane	Mozambique	910000 people
Tete	Mozambique	240000 people
Southern	Malawi	260000 people
Manica	Mozambique	1.1 million people

Populated places

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population
Quelimane	Zambezia	Mozambique	City	190000 people
Beira	Sofala	Mozambique	Major city	520000 people
Maxixe		Mozambique	City	120000 people
Chimoio	Manica	Mozambique	City	260000 people

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

Airports

Name	IATA Code	Elevation (m)	Usage	Runway type	IFR	Runway Length (ft)
Chinde	INE	unknown				0
Pebane	PEB	unknown				0
Quelimane	UEL	11	Civ.	Paved	Yes	5900
Bajone	BJN	unknown				0
Luabo	LBM	unknown				0
Moma	MMW	unknown				0
Beira	BEW	10	Civ.	Paved	Yes	7800
Vilanculos	VNX	14	Civ.	Paved	Yes	4800
Angoche	ANO	36	Civ.	Unpaved	No	3600
Inhaminga	IMG	unknown				0
Vila Franca Do Save		30				0
Alto Molocue	AME	unknown				0
Mutarara		48				0
Nsanje		61	Civ.	Unpaved	No	3200
Inhambane	INH	9	Civ.	Paved	Yes	4900
Chimoio	VPY	686	Civ.	Paved	No	7800

Ports

Name	LOCODE	Country
Vila Do Chinde		Mozambique
Chinde	MZINE	Mozambique
Porto Belo	MZPBE	Mozambique
Pebane	MZPEB	Mozambique
Porto de Quelimane	MZUEL	Mozambique
Rio Moebase		Mozambique
Moma	MZMMW	Mozambique
Bazaruto Island		Mozambique
Bartolomeo Diaz		Mozambique
Nova Mambone		Mozambique
Vilanculas		Mozambique
Beira	MZBEW	Mozambique
Angoche	MZANO	Mozambique
Inhambane	MZINH	Mozambique

Dams

Reservoir	Dam Name	River	Year
	Bue Maria	Pungoe	n/a

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Rainfall

Rainfall accumulation of the past 24h, as detected by the Global Precipitation Measurement mission of NASA. For more information, see https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GPM/main/index.html.

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StormSurge

The JRC has developed an experimental global storm surge model. The calculations are published about 20 minutes after a new advisory is detected by GDACS. The calculations identify the populated places affected by storm surge up to three days in advance, using the forecasted track. When forecasts change, the associated storm surge changes too and alert levels may go up or down. All links, data, statistics and maps refer to the latest available calculation. If the calculation for the last advisory is not completed, the latest available calculation is shown.

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