Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for RICK-21
in Mexico

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000841
Name RICK-21
Glide number: FL-2021-000166-VNM
From - To 22 Oct - 26 Oct
Exposed countries Mexico
Exposed population 740 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 167 km/h Category 2
Maximum storm surge 0.6 m (25 Oct 12:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 37 km/h 0.5 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 173 km/h 0.4 m 857 mm 0.5
GFS 162 km/h 0.7 m 471 mm 0.5
ECMWF 61 km/h 0.5 m 435 mm 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Guatemala: Natural Hazards Monitoring - 26 October 2021 10/28/2021 12:39:00 AM.

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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),