Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for THIRTEEN-21
in Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone THIRTEEN-21 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000761
Name THIRTEEN-21
From - To 21 Jan - 28 Jan
Exposed countries Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 65 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge 0.3 m (21 Jan 06:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Cocos Is.)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 46 km/h 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 158 km/h 0.1 m 1038 mm 0.5
GFS 79 km/h 0.1 m 564 mm 0.5
ECMWF 83 km/h 0.2 m 657 mm 0.5
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: 17 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

Thirteen dead, thousands homeless in southern Africa after storm Elois ... Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:21:00 +0100.

Johannesburg. The death toll from storm Eloise rose to at least 13 on Tuesday after heavy winds, rain and flooding destroyed buildings, drowned crops and displaced thousands in parts of southern Africa. Eloise weakened from a cyclone to a t
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Thirteen dead, thousands homeless in southern Africa after storm Elois ... Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:37:00 +0100.

The death toll from storm Eloise rose to at least 13 on Monday after heavy winds, rain and flooding destroyed buildings, drowned crops and displaced thousands in parts of southern Africa. Eloise weakened from a cyclone to a tropical storm a
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Thirteen dead, thousands homeless in southern Africa after...Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:54:00 +0100.

JOHANNESBURG - The death toll from storm Eloise rose to at least 13 on Monday after heavy winds, rain and flooding destroyed buildings, drowned crops and displaced thousands in parts of southern Africa. Eloise weakened from a cyclone to a t
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Thirteen dead, thousands homeless in southern Africa after storm Elois ... Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:38:00 +0100.

The death toll from storm Eloise rose to at least 13 on Monday after heavy winds, rain and flooding destroyed buildings, drowned crops and displaced thousands in parts of southern Africa.

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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), INFORM (2),