Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for KHANUN-17
in China

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000411
Name KHANUN-17
From - To 12 Oct - 16 Oct
Exposed countries China
Exposed population 5.1 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 167 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 3.2 m (15 Oct 16:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (China)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 46 km/h 3.2 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 71 km/h 1.2 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 81 km/h 0.5 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 64 km/h 1 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Feed aggregator 10/18/2017 4:38:00 AM.

The massive truck blast of Saturday 14 October in Mogadishu, one of the worst the city has suffered in over a decade, has claimed more than 300 lives and left an estimated 300 people injured and in need of medical care, including humanitari
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Tropical depression kills at least 83 people in Vietnam 10/17/2017 10:29:00 PM.

Tropical Depression 23W was a relatively weak system but unleashed torrential rain over northern and central Vietnam, causing the country's worst flooding in decades. Nearly 50,000 houses across the region were flooded or destroyed. At leas
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Flood teams sent out as Shanghai gets drenching 10/17/2017 9:06:00 AM.

Due to the effect of typhoon Khanun as well as a cold front, Shanghai has been wet and damp for days. It was raining cats and dogs in Pudong's southern areas. From 8am Sunday to 7am yesterday, rainfall reached 104.5 millimeters in Luchao Po
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Philippines: NDRRMC Update Sitrep No. 05 re Preparedness Measures and .. 10/17/2017 8:47:00 AM.

I. Situation Overview. 11 October 2017. At 10:00 PM, the Low Pressure Area (LPA) Northeast of Borongon City, Eastern Samar has developed into a Tropical Depression and was named "ODETTE". It has maximum sustained winds of 45kph near the cen
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2),