Overall Orange Tropical Cyclone alert for BELAL-24 in Miscellaneous (French) Indian Ocean Islands, Mauritius, Madagascar from 12 Jan 2024 16:00 UTC to 13 Jan 2024 00:00 UTC

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Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for BELAL-24

in Miscellaneous (French) Indian Ocean Islands, Mauritius, Madagascar

13 Jan 2024 00 UTC

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Meteorological source:

WMO-RSMC La Réunion
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Impact Single TC

Impact based on all weather systems in the area

Impact

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

Meteorological source	GDACS
Exposed countries	Mauritius
Exposed population	60 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	194 km/h
Maximum storm surge	0.2 m (16 Jan 00:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Medium (Reunion)

GDACS Score

GDACS alert score for Tropical Cyclones is 0.5 (GREEN Alert), 1.5 (ORANGE Alert), 2.5 (RED Alert)
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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
Current	194 km/h	0.2 m	n.a.	1.5
Overall	194 km/h	0.2 m	n.a.	1.5
Maximum winds, storm surge, rainfall (Current: over the next 72 h, Overall: entire TC track) based on GDACS impact

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Wind

194 km/h Current Max.

Up to 60000 people in Category 1 strength or higher (see SSHS)

Impact Timeline

Alert	N°	Date (UTC)	Max Winds (km/h)	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Population in Cat 1. or higher	Countries
	1	12 Jan 2024 12:00	204	2.2 million	40 thousand	Mauritius
	2	13 Jan 2024 00:00	194	2.2 million	60 thousand	Mauritius

Bulletin Timeline

N°	Date (UTC)	Category (SSHS)	Max winds (km/h)	Population in Cat.1 or higher	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Location (lat, lon)
1	12 Jan 2024 12:00	Tropical storm	65	no people	no people	-13.3, 56.6
2	13 Jan 2024 00:00	Tropical storm	93	no people	no people	-14.5, 55.8
2	13 Jan 2024 12:00	Tropical storm	111	no people	no people	-16.2, 54.8
2	14 Jan 2024 00:00	Category 1	130	no people	no people	-17.5, 54.2
2	14 Jan 2024 12:00	Category 1	148	no people	940000 people	-18.6, 54.2
2	15 Jan 2024 00:00	Category 2	176	54000 people	2.2 million people	-19.5, 54.9
2	16 Jan 2024 00:00	Category 3	194	57000 people	2.2 million people	-21, 57.1
2	17 Jan 2024 00:00	Category 3	185	no people	1.3 million people	-22.2, 59.5
2	18 Jan 2024 00:00	Category 2	167	no people	no people	-23.2, 61.3

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
Mauritius	55000 people

Provinces

Region Province	Country	Population in Tropical Storm or higher strength
Mauritius	Mauritius	55000 people

Critical infrastructure

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

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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

0.2 m

The maximum Storm surge height is 0.2m in Chemin Grenier, Mauritius. This height is estimated for 16 Jan 2024 00:00 UTC .

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.

Locations affected by Storm surge (26 locations). Calculation based on advisory number 2 of 13 Jan 2024 00:00:00 UTC. (Simulation using 0.5 minute resolution)

Alert	Date (UTC)	Name	Country	Storm surge height (m)
	16 Jan 2024 00:00	Chemin Grenier	Mauritius	0.2
	12 Jan 2024 15:00	Mahalevona	Madagascar	0.1
	16 Jan 2024 02:00	Maheboug	Mauritius	0.1
	12 Jan 2024 15:00	Anantoraka	Madagascar	0.1
	12 Jan 2024 15:00	Maroantsetra	Madagascar	0.1
	12 Jan 2024 15:00	Andranofotsy	Madagascar	0.1
	12 Jan 2024 15:00	Rantabe	Madagascar	0.1
	12 Jan 2024 15:00	Maintimbato	Madagascar	0.1
	12 Jan 2024 15:00	Tampolo	Madagascar	0.1
	15 Jan 2024 14:00	Sainte-Suzanne	Reunion	0.1
	16 Jan 2024 01:00	Riche-en-Eau	Mauritius	0.1
	12 Jan 2024 15:00	Manambia	Madagascar	0.1
	15 Jan 2024 12:00	Saint-Marie	Reunion	0.1
	15 Jan 2024 15:00	Saint-Andre	Reunion	0.1
	15 Jan 2024 15:00	Bras-Panon	Reunion	0.1
	15 Jan 2024 23:00	Port Louis	Mauritius	0.1
	12 Jan 2024 15:00	Voloina	Madagascar	0.1
	12 Jan 2024 15:00	Ambanizana	Madagascar	0.1
	12 Jan 2024 15:00	Benjana	Madagascar	0.1
	12 Jan 2024 15:00	Fananehana	Madagascar	0.1
	12 Jan 2024 15:00	Antalavia	Madagascar	0.1
	15 Jan 2024 11:00	Saint-Denis	Reunion	0.1
	15 Jan 2024 15:00	Saint-Benoit	Reunion	0.1
	15 Jan 2024 23:00	Choisy	Mauritius	0.1
	15 Jan 2024 23:00	Black River	Mauritius	0.1
	16 Jan 2024 01:00	Souillac	Mauritius	0.1

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