Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for LOWELL-14 Off-shore from 19 Aug 2014 03:00 UTC to 22 Aug 2014 21:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for LOWELL-14

Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	TC 47336
Name	LOWELL-14
From - To	19 Aug - 24 Aug
Exposed countries	Off-shore
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	121 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge	n.a.
Vulnerability	-- ()

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
JRC	56 km/h	n.a.	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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