Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for THETA-20
in , Portugal

Event summary

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

GDACS ID TC 1000742
Name THETA-20
From - To 10 Nov - 15 Nov
Exposed countries , Portugal
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 111 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 0.2 m (15 Nov 00:00 UTC)
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 46 km/h 0.2 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 151 km/h 0.8 m 295 mm 0.5
GFS 133 km/h 0.7 m 234 mm 0.5
ECMWF 86 km/h 0.5 m 395 mm 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 767 | About casualties: 34 | Last hour: 0

Talking the Tropics With Mike: Weak low SW CaribbeanThu, 19 Nov 2020 14:37:00 +0100.

Iota Recap: Tropical wave 98-L - over the Caribbean - was upgraded to tropical depression #31 Fri. morning & to tropical storm “Iota” Fri. afternoon then to a hurricane early Sunday - the 30th named storm of the ’20 Atlantic hurricane seaso
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Deadly Iota lashes Nicaragua, Honduras after record-setting landfallWed, 18 Nov 2020 02:37:00 +0100.

Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Honduran officials blamed at least fatalities on Iota on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after it made landfall on the country as a Category 4 storm. Just as the coastal region began making strides in its recovery from Eta, Iot
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Iota makes landfall over Nicaragua as "extremely dangerous" Cat 4Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:30:00 +0100.

Iota made landfall just 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta landed weeks ago. Eta's torrential rains saturated the soil, leaving it prone to new landslides and floods. Forecasters warned the storm surge could reach a shocking 15 to 20 fee
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Storm's first blows fall on NicaraguaTue, 17 Nov 2020 11:47:00 +0100.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- The front edge of Hurricane Iota began battering Nicaragua's Caribbean coast Monday night, threatening catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America hit by Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago. Iota had inte
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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),