Ela (low pressure area)

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Ela (low pressure area)
The storm over Dortmund
The storm over Dortmund
storm Mesoscale convective system (a system of several thunderstorm cells and super cells)
Wind types Gustnado , heavy gusts of wind , gusts of wind
Data
Beginning June 9, 2014
Climax 9/10. June 2014
The End June 10, 2014
Top gust 144 km / h ( Düsseldorf , Germany)
consequences
affected areas France , Luxembourg , Belgium , Netherlands , Germany ( North Rhine-Westphalia , Hesse and Lower Saxony )
Victim 6 dead
Damage amount 650 million euros
Worst storm in NRW since hurricane Kyrill .

The storm front of the low pressure area Ela , also referred to as Whit Monday storm in the media , hit North Rhine-Westphalia , Hesse and Lower Saxony with storms on June 9 and 10, 2014 .

Storm damage in the " LANUV forest", Recklinghausen
Storm damage to the U41 light rail line in Brechte
Damaged vehicle in Neuss

Emergence

According to the storm center Germany , hot air flowed from the south to Germany between the low Ela over the Eastern Atlantic and the high Wolfgang over Eastern Europe during the Pentecost days, which heated up to 38 degrees on Whit Monday. Then the Ela II marginal depression formed over the English Channel , the front system of which transported cool air. In the run-up to the front, thunderstorm cells arose over northern France and Belgium , which in the evening grew together into a large thunderstorm complex and produced their own circulation . This resulted in a mesoscale convective system (MCS) that crossed large parts of North Rhine-Westphalia with a bow echo . When the bow echo passed through, gusts up to hurricane strength occurred in a strip from the Rhineland to the Ruhr area. At the airport Dusseldorf wind speeds were measured up to 142 km / h. In some areas, around 40 liters of precipitation fell per square meter.

Damage

In the storm , which led to thunderstorms with squalls, rain and sometimes hail, a total of six people died on June 9 between 8 and 11 p.m. in Düsseldorf , Essen , Cologne and Krefeld ; In addition, 30 people were seriously injured and 37 slightly injured in North Rhine-Westphalia.

There was severe destruction and traffic disruption that lasted for several days. The Deutsche Bahn stated that the storm damage to the rail network by Ela would be significantly greater than in the case of Hurricane Kyrill in 2007. The State Office for Forest and Wood NRW registered almost 80,000 solid cubic meters of tree wood in the forests as damaged wood nationwide , 61,000 of which in the districts of the regional forest offices Ruhr and Lower Rhine, overall significantly less than during hurricane Kyrill. In the affected urban areas, every fourth tree was uprooted or kinked. As a result, the recreational function there is significantly impaired.

The insured damage was initially estimated at at least 100 million euros. One day later, surveyed insurance companies corrected their estimates significantly upwards. At the beginning of July 2014, insurers put the damage at around 650 million euros.

Dusseldorf

Call for donations for reforestation on a tree trunk, Düsseldorf
Destruction in the Düsseldorf court garden

On Whit Monday, June 9, 2014, the thunderstorm front of the low Ela moved in the evening around 9 p.m. from the west over Düsseldorf and caused severe devastation in the urban area. Three people died and eleven were injured in the storm. Seven emergency services were injured during the rescue and clean-up work. In a preliminary official damage balance of the city administration of Düsseldorf it was reported on July 3rd that around 22,500 of the around 69,000 street trees in the city were badly damaged; 2500 of them fell over. In the city cemeteries, 2000 trees were damaged or destroyed in the storm. Urban buildings, facilities and transport infrastructures were also badly affected. About 60 percent of the trees in the Rheinpark Golzheim were damaged; the Düsseldorf court garden was also badly hit. The damage in the parks earned the city the nickname "Dschungeldorf". By June 13, 2014, 3,101 damage locations were reported to the city fire brigade, almost three times more than during Hurricane Kyrill. A 320-year-old copper beech was uprooted in the Gerresheim district . The Bundeswehr sent 330 soldiers and around 50 vehicles from the 100 Engineer Regiment to Dusseldorf for clean-up work, including “mobile chainsaw squads” and engineer tanks . The total damage to the city amounted to 64 million euros according to the first balance. On July 3, 2014, 15 million euros were approved to repair the current damage to the urban infrastructure.

release

On July 5th, the wildlife park in the Grafenberg Forest and other green areas were released for use again. With the beginning of the summer holidays, the closure of the 192 sports facilities in the city area was also lifted. A total of 25 helpers were busy with the clean-up work for over 1,600 hours, around 200 solid cubic meters of wood and 500 cubic meters of tree crown were disposed of. As a result, local timber prices fell by more than half.

Reforestation

As part of a larger fundraising campaign by the city, an original idea has been used in Düsseldorf since October 2014 to attract donations for new planting. In agreement with the responsible authorities, the Fan Factory asked for a donation call to be sprayed on the fallen tree trunks with a QR code shown on the donation page, which citizens can scan with their smartphones. The template required for this was provided free of charge. The action was accompanied by educational posters near the sprayed remains of trees. Another campaign was to use the wood from 35 fallen trees in the courtyard garden to make 17,000 breakfast boards and to use the proceeds for reforestation.

Mülheim an der Ruhr

Linden tree uprooted from the Mintard village church during the Ela storm

In Mülheim, the southern and eastern districts of Saarn (with Selbeck and Mintard ), Menden and Heißen were hit particularly hard by the storm, so that numerous forest areas and playgrounds had to be closed. The Mülheim fire brigade speaks of over 2,000 storm-related deployment requests by June 27, 2014.

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A tree that was broken by the storm in the Schellenberg Forest in Essen

The Essen police drove a total of 950 storm-related missions by the morning of June 13, 2014. The Essen fire brigade registered 2,350 missions in the same time. When the festival Open Air Werden was evacuated , there were nine seriously and six slightly injured. For the thousands of visitors, a large care center was set up in a nearby gym, which was operated the entire night for the many underage festival visitors, among others. Any festival traffic via the rail network and special buses was interrupted for many hours. Hundreds of cars were also destroyed by trees. In addition to the shores of Lake Baldeney and the Grugapark , the cemeteries were also closed. The Essen Central was cut off from Whit Monday until June 14, 2014 by train. In Essen, the subsequent clean-up and sawing work was supported by the Essen aid organizations as well as by the spontaneous helpers of the Essen grabs an initiative that were formed at the time .

A total of 20,000 trees were destroyed in Essen.

Neuss

Neuss, Kaarster Straße: Flat roof flew away

In Neuss, street trees, park trees and trees on private property were damaged or uprooted on Whit Monday. The municipal schools and the Neuss music school did not teach until the end of the week because the way to school was not safe. The summer night run and the culture festival also had to be canceled.

Duisburg

Storm damage occurred mainly in the southeast of the city, in the city ​​forest and in the Huckinger Mark . As one of the few cities in the Ruhr area, Duisburg did not benefit from state funds because, according to the German Weather Service, only 6% of the city's area was affected. The city's environmental department regretted that Duisburg should not receive any state aid after the severe damage caused by the Pentecostal storm low. "Even if Duisburg was only partially affected and the damage was not as high as in other cities, the amount of damage of 2.5 million euros for a city in the budget renovation is no small matter," it said in the message.

Sauerland

On the Kahler Asten , 38 liters per square meter fell in 24 hours. In Schmallenberg , hailstones over four centimeters in size were registered in two thunderstorms within two days. The hail damaged numerous vehicles, skylights and glass greenhouses in several Schmallenberg districts. In addition, the hailstones damaged skylights and the roofs of several kindergartens, schools and public buildings. The Schmallenberg school center was flooded with water from the roof that penetrated through destroyed skylights. For this reason, the secondary school of the school center was closed until June 13, 2014. In the Hochsauerland region, a total of 900 dented vehicles were reported to LVM Versicherung alone by June 17, 2014 . The amount of damage up to this date was 1.3 million euros. As of June 20, 2014, the Provinzial insurance registered more than 800 hail-related vehicle damage in the Sauerland. A hardware store in Meschede was hit by a stormy gust of around 100 km / h. All garden houses were thrown up and destroyed. The debris flew over the entire site. The property damage is around 50,000 euros.

See also

Commons : Ela  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Additional information

literature

Movies

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Deep "Ela" worse than "Kyrill": devastating damage to the railway . Article from June 11, 2014 in the portal wz-newsline.de , accessed on June 12, 2014
  2. ↑ a b Insurer: NRW storm "Ela" costs 650 million. SPIEGEL ONLINE, July 2, 2014, accessed June 2, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Heavy storm front in NRW on June 9th, 2014 . Analysis of the storm in NRW on June 9, 2014 at unwetterzentrale.de , accessed on June 14, 2014
  4. ↑ “Many people don't realize that we have a problem with the climate” . Article from June 11, 2014 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on June 13, 2014
  5. ↑ Risk of storms not yet averted . Article from June 10, 2014 in the portal fr-online.de , accessed on June 12, 2014
  6. ↑ Chronicle of the storm: The storm and its consequences . Article from June 12, 2014 in the portal www1.wdr.de (status: 3:20 pm), accessed on June 13, 2014
  7. ↑ State of North Rhine-Westphalia is to help cities damaged by storms . Article from June 13, 2014 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on June 15, 2014
  8. ↑ 12.06.2014 - Storms bring almost 80,000 cubic meters of wood to the ground in the forest alone ( memento of the original from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release of the State Office for Forest and Wood NRW in the portal wald-und-holz.nrw.de , accessed on June 15, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wald-und-holz.nrw.de
  9. ↑ At least 100 million euros in damage to "Ela" . Article dated June 10, 2014 in the n24.de portal , accessed on June 12, 2014
  10. ↑ Sturm is much more expensive for insurers . Article from June 12, 2014 in the portal handelsblatt.com , accessed on June 12, 2014
  11. ↑ Storm damage in NRW: clearing up with tanks and chainsaws . Article from June 13, 2014 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on June 13, 2014
  12. ↑ The storm destroyed around 17,000 street trees in Düsseldorf . Article from June 11, 2014 in the portal derwesten.de , accessed on June 12, 2014
  13. ↑ "The Hofgarten as we knew it is gone" . Article from June 12, 2014 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on June 12, 2014
  14. ^ Bundeswehr cleans up in Düsseldorf after storms with tanks . Article from June 12, 2014 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on June 12, 2014
  15. ^ Bundeswehr helps Düsseldorf after storm damage ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Article from June 12, 2014 in the portal kleinezeitung.at
  16. ^ Farewell to the 320-year-old copper beech , Der Westen - Website, July 30, 2014. Accessed July 31, 2014.
  17. ↑ Twenty times as many trees bent as during Hurricane Kyrill . Article from June 13, 2014 on the Rheinische Post website, accessed on June 13, 2014
  18. ^ Railways and the armed forces clear the storm chaos . Article from June 12, 2014 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on June 12, 2014.
  19. ^ Bundeswehr cleans up in Düsseldorf after storms . Article from June 13, 2014 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on June 13, 2014
  20. ↑ Hurricane low "Ela" leaves damage of 64 million euros . Article from July 3, 2014 in the duesseldorf.de portal , accessed on July 20, 2014
  21. ↑ Wildlife park and forest roads open again. , Rheinische Post - Website, July 5, 2014. Accessed June 6, 2014.
  22. ↑ www.duesseldorf.de: Fan Factory - Legal spraying for a good cause , last accessed on November 20, 2014.
  23. ^ The storm of the century - When Ela swept through the country on Whitsun Description of the TV report in the ARD media library, accessed on May 29, 2020
  24. ^ City of Mülheim an der Ruhr: After "Ela": Everything about the storm consequences
  25. ^ City of Mülheim an der Ruhr: Severe weather consequences
  26. ↑ Essen fights against storm damage - Chronicle with all information . Article from June 13, 2014 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on June 13, 2014
  27. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/20-000-baeume-zerstoert-370-gepflanzt-id10037429.html
  28. ↑ Hurricane: Schools closed, cultural festival canceled . Article from June 12, 2014 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on June 12, 2014
  29. ↑ Duisburg receives zero euros from the state as storm aid . Article from August 28, 2014 der-westen.de , accessed on August 28, 2014
  30. ↑ Deep Ela worse than Kyrill - devastating damage to the railway Article from June 11, 2014 in the portal wz-newsline.de, accessed on June 15, 2014
  31. ↑ No lessons at the Christine Koch School Article dated June 12, 2014 in the sauerlandkurier.de portal , accessed on June 15, 2014
  32. ↑ Damage in the Hochsauerland, helpers in the Ruhr area - storms continue to have an effect ( memento of the original from July 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article from June 11, 2014 in the portal WDR, Studio Siegen , accessed on June 15, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.wdr.de
  33. ↑ New hail center in Bad Fredeburg ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article from June 17, 2014 in the WDR portal , Studio Siegen , accessed on June 18, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.wdr.de
  34. ↑ According to Ela: Provinzial uses an article from June 20, 2014 in the provinzial-online.de portal, accessed on July 5, 2014, for the first time during collective visits
  35. ↑ 50,000 euros in damage to a hardware store in the event of a storm in Meschede Article dated June 10, 2014 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on June 15, 2014