Disaster Summary Sheet: Tropical Cyclones
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This disaster summary sheet (DSS) provides a general profile of the potential impact of a tropical cyclone. The DSS helps understanding what the actual impact and priority needs after a cyclone may be, based on experience and lessons learnt from medium and large scale tropical cyclones that have occurred in the past.
This document does not intend to provide an in-depth analysis of the specific impact of tropical cyclones in different settings. It can however be used immediately after you received a cyclone alert as a framework for estimating the impact of the disaster or as a briefing package on “what do we know about the impact of a tropical cyclones on life saving sectors”.