Overall Red alert Tropical Cyclone for AMPIL-24
in Japan

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone AMPIL-24 can have a high humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1001082
Name AMPIL-24
From - To 12 Aug - 18 Aug
Exposed countries Japan
Exposed population 1.2 million in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 213 km/h Category 4
Maximum storm surge 0.3 m (16 Aug 14:00 UTC)
Vulnerability Low (Japan)

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 102 km/h 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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"ECHO Daily Map of 16 August 2024"

Latest media headlines

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

JAPAN-TOKYO-TYPHOON AMPIL-DISRUPTED TRANSPORTATION 8/16/2024 11:45:00 AM.

(240816) -- TOKYO, Aug. 16, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Aircraft of All Nippon Airways are pictured at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 16, 2024. Ampil, the seventh typhoon of the year, hit Japan on Friday, forcing cancellations of public transit
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JAPAN-TOKYO-TYPHOON AMPIL-DISRUPTED TRANSPORTATION 8/16/2024 11:33:00 AM.

(240816) -- TOKYO, Aug. 16, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Aircraft of All Nippon Airways are pictured at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 16, 2024. Ampil, the seventh typhoon of the year, hit Japan on Friday, forcing cancellations of public transit
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Japan - Tropical cyclone AMPIL (GDACS, JMA, JTWC, media) (ECHO Daily F.. 8/16/2024 11:22:00 AM.

On 14-15 August, tropical cyclone AMPIL continued moving north over the northern Pacific Ocean toward central Honshu island (the main island of Japan), strengthening, as a typhoon. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), on 16 A
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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),