Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for NOUL-15
in Japan, Philippines

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000162
Name NOUL-15
From - To 03 May - 12 May
Exposed countries Japan, Philippines
Exposed population 430 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 259 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge 0.6 m (10 May 10:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Japan)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 84 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.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),