Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for MARCUS-18
in Australia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000442
Name MARCUS-18
From - To 15 Mar - 24 Mar
Exposed countries Australia
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 259 km/h Category 5
Maximum storm surge 0.4 m (16 Mar 04:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Australia)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 65 km/h 0.9 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 53 km/h 0.5 m n.a. 0.5
GFS 76 km/h 1.3 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 77 km/h 0.9 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Predicting cyclone damage and what's wrong with the current categories 3/26/2018 10:02:00 PM.

But the categories are not the same all over the world. A category one tropical cyclone in Australia is not the same as a category one hurricane in the US, which is not necessarily the same as a typhoon crashing into the Philippines. Most p
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NASA Eyes Powerful Tropical Cyclone Marcus 3/23/2018 2:29:00 PM.

While a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Marcus in the Southern Indian Ocean. On March 22, 2018 2:30 a.m. EDT (06:30 UTC) the Visible Infrared Imag
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NASA eyes powerful Tropical Cyclone Marcus 3/22/2018 8:40:00 PM.

IMAGE: On March 22 at 2:30 a.m. EDT (06:30 UTC) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this visible image of Tropical Cyclone Marcus off Western Australia. Credit: NOAA/NASA Goddard Rapid Response Team. While a Category 4 hurricane on
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NASA Finds Major Tropical Cyclone Marcus Getting Stronger 3/22/2018 5:40:00 AM.

Now a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, Tropical Cyclone Marcus continues to strengthen as it moves south and keeps off-shore from Western Australia. NASA's Terra satellite looked at Marcus in infrared light 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 (38), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),