Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for LOWELL-20
Off-shore

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000722
Name LOWELL-20
From - To 20 Sep - 25 Sep
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 83 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 56 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 126 km/h 1 m 535 mm 0.5
GFS 108 km/h 0.5 m 591 mm 0.5
ECMWF 79 km/h 0.5 m 736 mm 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 51 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

NASA finds wind shear displacing Lowell’s strongest stormsFri, 25 Sep 2020 18:39:00 +0200.

NASA’s Aqua satellite provided an infrared view of Tropical Storm Lowell that revealed the effects of outside winds battering the storm. Wind shear occurs when winds at different levels of the atmosphere push against the rotating cylinder o
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NASA finds wind shear displacing Lowell's strongest stormsFri, 25 Sep 2020 17:02:00 +0200.

NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared view of Tropical Storm Lowell that revealed the effects of outside winds battering the storm.
NASA analyzes Tropical Storm Lowell’s very cold cloud topsTue, 22 Sep 2020 21:15:00 +0200.

NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Tropical Storm Lowell using infrared light to determine the strength of the storm. Infrared imagery revealed that the strongest storms were around Lowell’s center and in its southern quadrant beca
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NASA analyzes Tropical Storm Lowell's very cold cloud topsTue, 22 Sep 2020 18:42:00 +0200.

NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Tropical Storm Lowell using infrared light to determine the strength of the storm. Infrared imagery revealed that the strongest storms were around Lowell's center and in its southern quadrant beca
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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), INFORM (1), (1),