Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for PETER-21
in Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands U.S., Virgin Islands British, Anguilla, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone PETER-21 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000829
Name PETER-21
From - To 19 Sep - 23 Sep
Exposed countries Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands U.S., Virgin Islands British, Anguilla, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 83 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability Medium (Anguilla)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 46 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 97 km/h 0.5 m 699 mm 0.5
GFS 130 km/h 0.5 m 209 mm 0.5
ECMWF 115 km/h 0.8 m 422 mm 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Tropical Weather Outlook 9/26/2021 11:58:00 PM.

NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL. 800 AM EDT Sun Sep 26 2021. For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Sam, located about 900 miles east-southeast
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Hurricane Sam 2021 a powerful Category 4 9/26/2021 6:35:00 PM.

Sam was in the open ocean, however, and no immediate threat to land. As of 10 a.m. CDT Sunday, Hurricane Sam was located about 905 miles east-southeast of the Northern Leeward Islands and was moving west-northwest at 8 mph. Sam had 145 mph
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Sam a powerful category 4 hurricane, but not expected to threaten U.S... 9/26/2021 5:49:00 PM.

Hurricane Sam continues to swirl over the central Atlantic Sunday morning as a category 4 major hurricane with 145 mph winds. Currently, Sam does not threaten any land areas, but rough surf generated by the storm is expected to reach the Le
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Sam evolved into a category four hurricane in the Atlantic: what will .. 9/26/2021 3:05:00 PM.

Hurricane sam strengthened more than expected and is already advancing as a phenomenon of category four on the Saffir-Simpson scale , with maximum sustained winds churning at 233 kilometers per hour. The system is located closer and closer
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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 (40), (2), INFORM (2),