Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for POLO-14 Off-shore from 16 Sep 2014 09:00 UTC to 20 Sep 2014 21:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for POLO-14

Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone POLO-14 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 47949
Name	POLO-14
From - To	16 Sep - 22 Sep
Exposed countries	Off-shore
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	148 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability	-- ()

GDACS Score

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
JRC	47 km/h	0 m	n.a.	0.5
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.

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Latest media headlines

NASA sees Tropical Depression Polo winding down 9/22/2014 6:55:00 PM.

Infrared satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed only a swirl of low-level clouds some deep clouds around Polo's weakening center on Sept. 22 as the storm weakened to a depression.

Tropical storm Polo threatens battered Mexican resort of Los Cabos 9/20/2014 3:03:00 AM.

(Adds U.S. Embassy statement on U.S. citizens) SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Tropical storm Polo barreled nearer on Friday to the Mexican Pacific resort of Los Cabos where thousands of troops were restoring order following widespre

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Mexico struggles to return order to Los Cabos 9/20/2014 2:28:00 AM.

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Authorities struggled Friday to restore services and calm residents five days after Hurricane Odile knocked out power, water and phone service along the Baja Peninsula, sparking widespread looting in the resort area of Lo

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Mexico struggles to return order to Los Cabos 9/20/2014 2:16:00 AM.

Authorities struggled Friday to restore services and calm residents five days after Hurricane Odile knocked out power, water and phone service along the Baja Peninsula, sparking widespread looting in the Click to Continue

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