Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for SAOLA-17
in Japan

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone SAOLA-17 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000414
Name SAOLA-17
From - To 19 Oct - 29 Oct
Exposed countries Japan
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 176 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 0.6 m (28 Oct 03:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Japan)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 102 km/h 0.6 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
GFS 45 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
ECMWF 105 km/h 1.1 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

NASA Sees Extra-tropical Storm Saola Moving by Japan 10/31/2017 5:17:00 PM.

Former Tropical Storm Saola transitioned into an extra-tropical storm on Oct. 29 as it tracked southeast of the big island of Japan. NASA's Terra Satellite captured a visible image of the storm after it moved north of Hokkaido, Japan on Oct
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Tokyo hit by second tropical cyclone in a week 10/29/2017 5:47:00 PM.

A week ago, Typhoon Lan made landfall on Japan's main island of Honshu and was driven across Tokyo. It was a major typhoon, one of the biggest on record, but was weakening before it reached Japan's capital. Now another tropical cyclone is b
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Typhoon Saola brings heavy rain in southern Japan 10/29/2017 1:42:00 PM.

Typhoon Saola barrelled towards Japan's southernmost Okinawa island chain on Saturday bringing heavy rain as authorities issued a warning for strong winds and landslides. The storm came less than a week after Typhoon Lan left five dead, one
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Japan Typhoon Saola 10/29/2017 9:05:00 AM.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),