Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for IDAI-19
in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Miscellaneous (French) Indian Ocean Islands

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone IDAI-19 can have a high humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000552
Name IDAI-19
Glide number: TC-2019-000021-MOZ
From - To 09 Mar - 15 Mar
Exposed countries Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Miscellaneous (French) Indian Ocean Islands
Exposed population 1.9 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 194 km/h Category 3
Maximum storm surge 2.4 m (14 Mar 22:00 UTC)
Vulnerability High (Mozambique)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 167 km/h 2.3 m n.a. 2.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1148 | About casualties: 336 | Last hour: 0

Mozambique: First cholera cases confirmed in city ravaged by Cyclone I.. 3/27/2019 11:55:00 AM.

Five cases of cholera were confirmed in the cyclone-ravaged port city of Beira in Mozambique on Wednesday, raising fears of an outbreak that threatens to escalate an already climbing death toll. About 700 people were killed across southern
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Cyclones a reality as oceans warm up 3/27/2019 11:24:00 AM.

Tropical cyclone Idai has made headlines across southern Africa throughout this month. Lingering in the Mozambique Channel at tropical cyclone intensity the storm made landfall in Beira, Mozambique in the middle of the month, then tracked i
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Macheso mourns cyclone victims 3/27/2019 11:20:00 AM.

Blessing Masakadza • 27 March 2019 11:55AM • 0 comments SUNGURA giant Alick Macheso was on Sunday in mourning mood, remembering the victims of Cyclone Idai and yesteryear fallen music greats. He took time observing a moment of silence fo
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Maputo - L’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) lance.. 3/27/2019 11:18:00 AM.

Maputo - L’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) lance un appel de 36,4 millions de dollars pour les six prochains mois, afin de répondre aux besoins humanitaires de quelque 1,85 million de personnes touchées par le cyclone
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16/May/2019 05:15 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: UNOSAT (1), EMSR (2), EC-JRC (38), (2), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),