Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for KARINA-20
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone KARINA-20 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000715
Name KARINA-20
From - To 13 Sep - 17 Sep
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 93 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 56 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 126 km/h 0.5 m 586 mm 0.5
GFS 90 km/h 0.5 m 339 mm 0.5
ECMWF 79 km/h 0.4 m 773 mm 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

NASA’s water vapor analysis of Tropical Storm Karina shows wind shear .. 9/20/2020 3:32:00 PM.

When NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean, it gathered water vapor data on Tropical Storm Karina. The data showed that the storm was being affected by wind shear from the northeast, pushing the bulk of clouds to the s
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NASA sees tropical storm Karina’s night moves 9/16/2020 9:45:00 PM.

Tropical Storm Karina was making night moves like the old Bob Seger song. NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided an infrared image of Tropical Storm Karina’s nighttime movement as it moved away from the Baja California peninsula of Mexico
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NASA sees tropical storm Karina's night moves 9/16/2020 9:03:00 PM.

Tropical Storm Karina was making night moves like the old Bob Seger song. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided an infrared image of Tropical Storm Karina's nighttime movement as it moved away from the Baja California peninsula of Mexico
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A NASA-NOAA nighttime view finds a slightly better organized tropical .. 9/15/2020 9:25:00 PM.

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided an infrared look at Tropical Storm Karina in the Eastern Pacific Ocean that gave forecasters a nighttime view of the storm. It revealed a slightly more organized tropical storm. NASA’s nighttime view
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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), INFORM (1), (1),