Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for LOKE-15
Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000201
Name LOKE-15
From - To 21 Aug - 26 Aug
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 130 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 0.1 m (28 Aug 00:00 UTC)
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 93 km/h 0.1 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.
Virtual OSOCC
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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 (46), INFORM (1), (1),