Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for WASI-20
in Samoa, Niue

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone WASI-20 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000656
Name WASI-20
From - To 21 Feb - 23 Feb
Exposed countries Samoa, Niue
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 102 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 0.2 m (23 Feb 20:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Medium (Samoa)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 46 km/h 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 119 km/h 0.4 m 679 mm 0.5
GFS 140 km/h 0.4 m 436 mm 0.5
ECMWF 65 km/h 0.4 m 589 mm 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 3 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

American Samoa escapes the worst blows of Tropical Storm WasiMon, 24 Feb 2020 18:01:00 +0100.

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Schools are scheduled to reopen today, businesses will be back in full operation as well as normal government operations, after two back-to-back storms caused disruption on island, which first began, Feb. 16th wi
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Despite downgrand to Wind Advisory expect breezy conditions tonightSun, 23 Feb 2020 05:07:00 +0100.

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Even though the Tropical Storm Warning has been downgraded to a Wind Advisory, expect breezy conditions through tonight. However, damaging winds will remain south of American Samoa and will not impact the territo
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Move over Vicky, we now have Cyclone WASI for Samoa and NiueSat, 22 Feb 2020 10:38:00 +0100.

Vicky is no longer a Cyclone and has been replaced by another storm in the same area - Tropical Cyclone WASI. It is the third tropical storm to form in a week in the region and the second named tropical cyclone. "The energy in the area has
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2),