Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for JONGDARI-18 in Japan from 22 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC to 01 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for JONGDARI-18

in Japan

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	TC 1000473
Name	JONGDARI-18
From - To	22 Jul - 02 Aug
Exposed countries	Japan
Exposed population	17.7 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	213 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge	2.4 m (03 Aug 06:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Low (Japan)

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS JTWC	46 km/h	2.4 m	n.a.	0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	66 km/h	0.8 m	n.a.	0.5
GFS	106 km/h	1 m	n.a.	0.5
ECMWF	63 km/h	1 m	n.a.	0.5

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