Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for RAQUEL-15 in Solomon Islands from 30 Jun 2015 12:00 UTC to 03 Jul 2015 18:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for RAQUEL-15

in Solomon Islands

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone RAQUEL-15 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 1000171
Name	RAQUEL-15
From - To	30 Jun - 04 Jul
Exposed countries	Solomon Islands
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	111 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge	0.1 m (04 Jul 06:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	High (Solomon Is.)

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS JTWC	56 km/h	0 m	n.a.	0.5
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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