Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for PHAILIN-13
in India

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone PHAILIN-13 can have a high humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 40489
Name PHAILIN-13
From - To 09 Oct - 12 Oct
Exposed countries India
Exposed population 5.2 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 269 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge 1.1 m (12 Oct 16:00 UTC)
Vulnerability High (India)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 185 km/h 1.1 m n.a. 2.5
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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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), (2), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),