Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for MERANTI-16
in China, Japan

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone MERANTI-16 can have a high humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000302
Name MERANTI-16
From - To 08 Sep - 14 Sep
Exposed countries China, Japan
Exposed population 22.2 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 306 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge 2 m (14 Sep 19:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (China)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 167 km/h 2 m n.a. 1.5
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.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Philippines: NDRRMC Update: SitRep No. 07 re Preparedness Measures and.. 9/18/2016 9:19:00 AM.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

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