Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for HECTOR-18
Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000477
Name HECTOR-18
From - To 31 Jul - 15 Aug
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 250 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 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 168 km/h 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 105 km/h 0.4 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (38), INFORM (1), (1),