Overall Red Tropical Cyclone alert for MATTHEW-16 in United States, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti from 28 Sep 2016 15:00 UTC to 05 Oct 2016 09:00 UTC

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Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for MATTHEW-16

in United States, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	TC 1000316
Name	MATTHEW-16
From - To	28 Sep - 09 Oct
Exposed countries	United States, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti
Exposed population	540 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	231 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge	2.5 m (06 Oct 18:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	High (United States)

GDACS Score

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS NOAA	120 km/h	2.5 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.

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11/Oct/2016 04:48 UTC

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),

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