Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for HELENE-18
in Portugal, Ireland, United Kingdom

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone HELENE-18 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000499
Name HELENE-18
From - To 07 Sep - 16 Sep
Exposed countries Portugal, Ireland, United Kingdom
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 185 km/h Category 3
Maximum storm surge 0.2 m (08 Sep 17:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Portugal)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 93 km/h 1.1 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.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (38), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),