Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for KONG-REY-13
in China

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone KONG-REY-13 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 39673
Name KONG-REY-13
From - To 26 Aug - 31 Aug
Exposed countries China
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 121 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 1.1 m (31 Aug 17:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (China)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
JRC 56 km/h 1.1 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

An August with less sunshine 9/3/2013 1:18:00 PM.

Hong Kong (HKSAR) - The weather of August 2013 was rather gloomy, mainly due to a prolonged period of cloudy and rainy weather associated with tropical cyclones Utor and Trami in mid-August. The total duration of bright sunshine recorded in
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Philippines: Asia Pacific Region: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapsho.. 9/2/2013 9:48:00 PM.

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea PHILIPPINES Forming just east of the Philippines, tropical storm Kong-Rey (Nando) moved nort
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Philippines: Asia Pacific Region: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapsho.. 9/2/2013 3:40:00 PM.

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines PHILIPPINES Forming just east of the Philippines, tropical storm
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Des trompe-l'oeil contre la pollution à Hong Kong 9/2/2013 1:24:00 PM.

Face à la pollution, pouvoirs locaux, entreprises et touristes sont obligés de prendre des mesures. Certaines sont pour le moins ...

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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 (46), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),