Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for DINEO-17
in Mozambique

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000337
Name DINEO-17
From - To 13 Feb - 16 Feb
Exposed countries Mozambique
Exposed population 510 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 139 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge 0.9 m (15 Feb 17:00 UTC)
Vulnerability High (Mozambique)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 111 km/h 0.9 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

Articles: 650 | About casualties: 28 | Last hour: 0

We’re in a Global Hunger Crisis. Solution? Take JFK’s Approach.Sun, 19 Feb 2017 22:24:00 +0100.

The U.S. government's global famine warning system has sounded the alarm on hunger. As a result of conflict and drought "70 million people, across 45 countries, will require emergency food assistance this year." Four countries (South Sudan,
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One year on from Cyclone WinstonSun, 19 Feb 2017 19:47:00 +0100.

The chief said 14 people died on Koro, half of them in Nasau, the village next door. He said the anniversary is a sad day for the whole island but they would gather in their villages, and hold a church service in memory of those who died. H
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Project noah staysSun, 19 Feb 2017 18:15:00 +0100.

MAYOR Jose Esgana of Santa Fe town in Bantayan Island, Cebu asked the National Government not to dissolve Project Noah, saying it is an effective disaster mitigating tool. His appeal was also supported by former mayor Ricardo Ramirez in the
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Kenya arrests 2 suspected ISIS recruits deported from TurkeySun, 19 Feb 2017 10:00:00 +0100.

'So many people dying': Horror tales from Zimbabwe's hospitals. Harare - A Zimbabwean mother who's just given birth to a baby at 24 weeks is told there are no incubators. A family desperately tries to club together to ensure better medical
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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 (38), (2), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),