Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for VERONICA-19
in Australia

Impact

Tropical Cyclone VERONICA-19 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed,exposed population and vulnerability.

Meteorological source GDACS
Exposed countries Australia
Exposed population 4 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 259 km/h
Maximum storm surge 0.8 m (24 Mar 00:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Australia)

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 194 km/h 0.8 m n.a. 0.5
Overall 259 km/h 0.8 m n.a. 0.5

Maximum winds, storm surge, rainfall (Current: over the next 72 h, Overall: entire TC track) based on GDACS impact

Wind

194 km/h Current Max.

Up to <1000 people in Category 1 strength or higher (see SSHS)

Impact Timeline

Alert Date (UTC) Max Winds (km/h) Population in
Tropical Storm or higher
Population in
Cat 1. or higher
Countries
Green 1 19 Mar 2019 18:00 194 30 thousand 1 thousand Australia
Green 2 20 Mar 2019 00:00 194 30 thousand Few people Australia

Bulletin Timeline

Alert Date (UTC) Category
(SSHS)
Max winds
(km/h)
Population in
Cat.1 or higher
Population in
Tropical Storm
or higher
Location (lat, lon) Countries
GREEN
1 19 Mar 2019 18:00 Tropical storm 74 no people no people -14.9, 119.7
GREEN
2 20 Mar 2019 00:00 Tropical storm 93 no people no people -15.4, 119
GREEN
2 20 Mar 2019 12:00 Category 1 120 no people no people -16, 118
GREEN
2 21 Mar 2019 00:00 Category 2 157 no people no people -16.5, 117.2
GREEN
2 21 Mar 2019 12:00 Category 3 185 no people no people -16.9, 116.7
GREEN
2 22 Mar 2019 00:00 Category 3 194 no people no people -17.3, 116.3
GREEN
2 23 Mar 2019 00:00 Category 3 194 no people 27000 people -18.5, 116 Australia
GREEN
2 24 Mar 2019 00:00 Category 2 176 <1000 people 35000 people -20, 116.1 Australia
GREEN
2 25 Mar 2019 00:00 Category 1 120 no people no people -21.5, 115.8 Australia
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
Australia

Provinces

Region Province Country
Western Australia Australia

Critical infrastructure

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

Ports

Name LOCODE Country
Cossack Pioneer AUCOP Coral Sea Islands
Wandoo Marine Terminal Coral Sea Islands
Cape Preston AUCPN Coral Sea Islands
Varanus Island AUVAR Coral Sea Islands

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

0.8 m

The maximum Storm surge height is  0.8m in Wickham, Australia. This height is estimated for 24 Mar 2019 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 (14 locations). Calculation based on advisory number 2 of 20 Mar 2019 00:00:00 UTC. (Simulation using 0.5 minute resolution)

Alert Date (UTC) Name Country Storm surge height (m)
24 Mar 2019 00:00 Wickham Australia  0.8
24 Mar 2019 00:00 Point Samson Australia  0.8
24 Mar 2019 00:00 Cossack Australia  0.8
24 Mar 2019 00:00 Ah Chong I Australia  0.8
24 Mar 2019 00:00 East Lewis I Australia  0.6
20 Mar 2019 03:00 Derby Australia  0.3
20 Mar 2019 11:00 Pender Australia  0.3
21 Mar 2019 00:00 Condon Australia  0.3
23 Mar 2019 14:00 Mardie Australia  0.3
19 Mar 2019 23:00 Kollan I Australia  0.2
20 Mar 2019 13:00 Broome Australia  0.2
20 Mar 2019 13:00 Thangoo Australia  0.2
20 Mar 2019 22:00 Kennedys Cottage Australia  0.2
20 Mar 2019 22:00 Waterbank Australia  0.2