Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for RITA-19 in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands from 24 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC to 25 Nov 2019 06:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for RITA-19

in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands

25 Nov 2019 06 UTC

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Impact Single TC

Impact based on all weather systems in the area

Impact

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

Meteorological source	GDACS
Exposed countries	Vanuatu, Solomon Islands
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	130 km/h
Maximum storm surge	0.3 m (28 Nov 09:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	High (Solomon Is.)

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	130 km/h	0.3 m	n.a.	0.5
Overall	130 km/h	0.3 m	n.a.	0.5
Maximum winds, storm surge, rainfall (Current: over the next 72 h, Overall: entire TC track) based on GDACS impact

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Wind

130 km/h Current Max.

Up to no people in Category 1 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	24 Nov 2019 00:00	130	30 thousand	No people	Solomon Islands
2	24 Nov 2019 06:00	111	30 thousand	No people	Solomon Islands
3	24 Nov 2019 12:00	120	30 thousand	No people	Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
4	24 Nov 2019 18:00	111	60 thousand	No people	Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
5	25 Nov 2019 00:00	130	70 thousand	No people	Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
6	25 Nov 2019 06:00	130	120 thousand	No people	Vanuatu, Solomon Islands

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)	Countries
1	24 Nov 2019 00:00	Tropical storm	65	no people	10000 people	-10.2, 168.2	Solomon Islands
2	24 Nov 2019 06:00	Tropical storm	74	no people	26000 people	-10.2, 169	Solomon Islands
3	24 Nov 2019 12:00	Tropical storm	102	no people	no people	-10.6, 169.1
4	24 Nov 2019 18:00	Tropical storm	102	no people	no people	-11.2, 169.3
5	25 Nov 2019 00:00	Category 1	120	no people	no people	-11.8, 169.7
6	25 Nov 2019 06:00	Category 1	120	no people	no people	-12.3, 170.3
6	25 Nov 2019 18:00	Category 1	130	no people	no people	-13.1, 170.5
6	26 Nov 2019 06:00	Tropical storm	111	no people	no people	-13.9, 170.4
6	26 Nov 2019 18:00	Tropical storm	93	no people	no people	-14.6, 170.1
6	27 Nov 2019 06:00	Tropical storm	83	no people	37000 people	-15, 169.6	Vanuatu
6	28 Nov 2019 06:00	Tropical storm	65	no people	95000 people	-15.2, 168.4	Vanuatu
6	29 Nov 2019 06:00	Tropical depression	56	no people	no people	-14.9, 166.9	Vanuatu

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

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

0.3 m

The maximum Storm surge height is 0.3m in Narovorovo, Vanuatu. This height is estimated for 28 Nov 2019 09:00 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 (32 locations). Calculation based on advisory number 6 of 25 Nov 2019 06:00:00 UTC. (Simulation using 0.5 minute resolution)

Alert	Date (UTC)	Name	Country	Storm surge height (m)
	28 Nov 2019 09:00	Narovorovo	Vanuatu	0.3
	28 Nov 2019 09:00	Jasmori	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 17:00	Duin Dui	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 04:00	Lamarou	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 04:00	Paia	Vanuatu	0.1
	29 Nov 2019 03:00	Iakobone	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 23:00	Hog Harbour	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 23:00	Lowarhe	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 11:00	Lolowai	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 07:00	Nouville	New Caledonia	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 07:00	Noumea	New Caledonia	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 07:00	Comm. du Mont-Dore	New Caledonia	0.1
	29 Nov 2019 01:00	Lavatavo	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 15:00	Walurigi	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 15:00	Lolopuepue	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 15:00	Lowitava	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 07:00	Saint-Louis	New Caledonia	0.1
	29 Nov 2019 02:00	Ladhu	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 23:00	Longtal	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 17:00	Coulons	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 17:00	Saraotou	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 12:00	Longang	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 09:00	Abatabanga	Vanuatu	0.1
	29 Nov 2019 05:00	Wora	Vanuatu	0.1
	29 Nov 2019 05:00	Souleisere	Vanuatu	0.1
	29 Nov 2019 04:00	Piapouria	Vanuatu	0.1
	29 Nov 2019 06:00	Wonisule	Vanuatu	0.1
	29 Nov 2019 06:00	Vesalia	Vanuatu	0.1
	29 Nov 2019 06:00	Takumuna	Vanuatu	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 07:00	Dumbea	New Caledonia	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 07:00	Plum	New Caledonia	0.1
	28 Nov 2019 04:00	Ignal	Vanuatu	0.1

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