Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for NORA-21
in Mexico

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone NORA-21 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000817
Name NORA-21
Glide number: TC-2021-000122-MEX
From - To 25 Aug - 30 Aug
Exposed countries Mexico
Exposed population 1.4 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 139 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 0.3 m (30 Aug 04:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Mexico)

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 338 | About casualties: 41 | Last hour: 0

StormTeam3: Tracking Drought, Rain, and former Hurricanes 9/2/2021 5:15:00 PM.

A lot going on today in the weather world locally and nationally. Here is what we are tracking. 1. Improving Drought. Great news, we saw across the board improvements thanks to rain last week! Moderate drought now only through parts of N
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New Orleans in the Aftermath of Hurricane Ida - The New York Times 9/2/2021 4:01:00 PM.

After Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans, leaving destruction in its wake, comparisons with Hurricane Katrina were made. There are, however, big differences between the two disasters — namely that the city, in the 16 years since Katrina, has hea
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New Orleans in the Aftermath of Hurricane Ida - The New York Times 9/2/2021 3:57:00 PM.

After Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans, leaving destruction in its wake, comparisons with Hurricane Katrina were made. There are, however, big differences between the two disasters — namely that the city, in the 16 years since Katrina, has hea
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New Orleans in the Aftermath of Hurricane Ida 9/2/2021 1:40:00 PM.

After Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans, leaving destruction in its wake, comparisons with Hurricane Katrina were made. There are, however, big differences between the two disasters — namely that the city, in the 16 years since Katrina, has hea
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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (2), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),