Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for LEEPI-18 in Korea, Republic of, Japan from 11 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC to 15 Aug 2018 18:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for LEEPI-18

in Korea, Republic of, Japan

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone LEEPI-18 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 1000484
Name	LEEPI-18
From - To	11 Aug - 15 Aug
Exposed countries	Korea, Republic of, Japan
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	130 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge	0.5 m (14 Aug 23:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Low (Japan)

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS JTWC	56 km/h	0.5 m	n.a.	0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	78 km/h	1.5 m	n.a.	0.5
GFS	82 km/h	0.8 m	n.a.	0.5
ECMWF	112 km/h	0.8 m	n.a.	0.5

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