Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for DAHLIA-17
in Indonesia, Christmas Island

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone DAHLIA-17 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000423
Name DAHLIA-17
From - To 30 Nov - 03 Dec
Exposed countries Indonesia, Christmas Island
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 130 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 0.2 m (02 Dec 01:00 UTC)
Vulnerability -- (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 65 km/h 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 83 km/h 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 56 km/h 0.6 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF n.a 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

NASA Finds Newly Formed Tropical Storm Dahlia Battling Wind Shear 12/1/2017 7:50:00 PM.

. Published: December 1, 2017. Released by Tropical Storm Dahlia formed under the conditions of vertical wind shear, which displaced the bulk of its clouds north of the center. Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed that Tropi
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),