Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for JIMENA-15
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone JIMENA-15 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000204
Name JIMENA-15
From - To 26 Aug - 10 Sep
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 259 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 56 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.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

NASA sees wind shear affecting Tropical Storm Jimena 9/8/2015 9:22:00 PM.

NASA's Aqua satellite captured this infrared look at Jimena on Sept.8 at 1147 UTC (7:47 a.m. EDT). Strongest storms (purple) west of center. Credit: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen. Strong vertical wind shear has been affecting Tropical Storm Jimena in
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Suomi NPP sees a weaker Hurricane Jimena 9/4/2015 9:37:00 PM.

The VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi satellite captured this infrared image of Hurricane Jimena on August 28 at 10:16 UTC (6:16 a.m. EDT). Strongest part of the hurricane appears in red. Credit: NRL/NASA/NOAA. Hurricane Jimena is o
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Study reveals the possibility of hurricanes 'unlike anything you've se.. 9/4/2015 6:16:00 PM.

This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015, shows Hurricane Jimena moving through the central Pacific with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour. A new study by Princeton's Ning Lin and MIT's Kerry Emanuel shows that wh
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GPM sees Hurricane Jimena's eroding eyewall 9/4/2015 1:16:00 AM.

Hurricane Jimena, a once powerful Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds estimated at 140 mph by the National Hurricane Center, has continued to weaken well east of Hawaii. The Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM core satellite a
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), INFORM (1), (1),