Hurricane Emma
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| storm | Hurricane (North Atlantic Trogorkan ) |
| General weather situation | West facing |
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| Emergence | February 29, 2008 |
| resolution | March 2, 2008 |
| Top gust | 236 km / h ( Krippenstein) |
| Lowest air pressure | 959 hPa ( Faroe Islands) |
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| affected areas | Netherlands , Germany , Austria , Switzerland , Poland , Czech Republic |
| Victim | 14 fatalities |
| Damage amount | by 1 billion euros insured sum |
Map with all linked sites: Emma was a hurricane that swept across Central Europe from February 29 to March 2, 2008 . The main damage was caused by the storm on March 1, 2008. A second wave followed the next day, the effects of which were significantly weaker. The hurricane claimed 14 lives; the damage caused is estimated at around one billion euros.
course
On February 28, 2008, with a core pressure of 985 hPa off Newfoundland, the Emma low pressure area formed , which later crossed the northern Atlantic Ocean , driven by the jet stream . Due to the weather conditions, the meteorologists gave an early warning of a hurricane. The first stronger storm front moved from Saturday, March 1, at around 11 a.m. with short strong gusts over the Eastern Alps, while the second, weaker one ( called the Fee ) ran through Sunday (March 2) from morning to evening.
The hurricane at Krippenstein (Upper Austria) reached 236 km / h in gusts . In Switzerland, a speed of 224 km / h was measured at the Konkordia hut on the Aletsch glacier. The value of 222 km / h on the Wendelstein in Germany clearly exceeded the wind speeds of Hurricane Kyrill on January 18, 2007 (202 km / h). Other peaks in Austria were 183 km / h on the Feuerkogel and 165 km / h in the Leiser mountains at only 491 m above sea level. A. Elevation. In the lowlands, too, it reached 140 km / h each at the airports in Vienna and Salzburg , which is close to the highest value ever recorded in the lowlands of 147 km / h on February 27, 1990 in Hörsching ( hurricane Vivian ).
Effects and damage
The storm killed at least 14 people and caused a total insurance loss, which is estimated at 750 million to 1.3 billion euros.
In Germany, the hurricane directly or indirectly killed six people through fallen trees or accidents, there were two deaths each in the Czech Republic and Poland, four deaths and numerous injuries, including among the emergency services, were recorded in Austria. Houses were covered, roads were impassable; This resulted in disabilities in rail travel. Around 150,000 people were temporarily without electricity. It was the first catastrophic storm event in Germany since Kyrill . The fact that the total damage caused by Emma was lower than that of Kyrill (€ 4.5 billion) is due to the fact that high winds only existed in significantly smaller areas, as was the case four weeks earlier with storm Paula .
Germany
The hurricane left around one million cubic meters of storm wood in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Sauerland and the Siegen-Wittgenstein district were particularly hard hit . Above all, it hit forest areas that had already been damaged by Kyrill.
At Brühl in North Rhine-Westphalia on March 1, 2008 at around 5:30 a.m., an Intercity Express (ICE) collided with a fallen tree. At the Hamburg airport consisting was Munich forthcoming Airbus A320 Suhl the Lufthansa with 131 passengers on board during landing captured by a gust, while the left wing touched the car. The crew was using Durchstarten prevent an accident and landed the damaged machine safely on a different path.
A storm surge occurred on the North Sea that flooded the Hamburg fish market .
In Osterhofen in Lower Bavaria , the steeple of the Asambasilika of Altenmarkt monastery was destroyed on March 1st, 2008 and thrown into the roof of the church.
Austria
In the Austrian federal states of Upper and Lower Austria , around 25,000 firefighters had been deployed on almost 12,000 missions by Sunday noon. This significantly exceeded the number of operations for Storm Paula in January. While forestry in Tyrol reports forest damage three times as high as according to Kyrill, in Upper Austria property damage to buildings in particular is estimated at 70 million euros. The Federal Government is providing emergency aid from the Disaster Fund of 82 million euros. Paula had caused over 6 million cubic meters of storm wood, the damage to the Austrian forestry was increased by 1.9 million cubic meters thrown by Emma. Emma and Paula reached the level of damage caused by Vivian / Wiebke in 1990 with around 7.5 million emm and the snow break of 1979 with around 6 million emm, so it turned out to be one of the most serious forest damage events in the Second Republic.
At the Vienna Südbahnhof , an overturning crane damaged the platforms and overhead lines of all tracks leading south.
In St. Pölten, a tree fell on a vehicle, with the driver dying in the rubble. This incident continued to preoccupy the courts with jurisdiction over tree care .
Switzerland and Liechtenstein
No personal injuries were recorded in the Principality of Liechtenstein , but the hurricane had uprooted trees in several places and several roofs were covered. In Switzerland , the hurricane claimed two injuries.
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary
Emma killed two people in the Czech Republic . A man was injured by a flying object and subsequently succumbed to his injuries; a child was killed by a tree. Emma caused greater damage to the ČEZ network than Kyrill and, according to the energy supplier, around 920,000 people were without electricity on Saturday - especially in the west of the country. ČEZ estimates the damage at the equivalent of six million euros. The company E.ON , which operates mainly supply in South Bohemia and South Moravia, going multi-million euro damage by Emma.
There were no fatalities in Slovakia . Overturning trees and falling roofs damaged cars here too, and the storm cut the power supply for tens of thousands of households. The highest wind speeds occurred with 120–130 km / h, especially in the western Tatras .
Emma also had an impact in Hungary . With wind speeds of 110 km / h, air traffic at Budapest Airport had to be temporarily suspended. The storm put traffic lights out of operation and disrupted the power supply in the capital of Hungary, especially in the 22nd district.
Netherlands, UK
Also at Amsterdam airport in the Netherlands, the air traffic was disrupted, whereas in the United Kingdom primarily train passengers were affected because wind gusts several containers had blown two freight trains.
See also
- Storm low , with further examples of storms with high damaging effects
- List of weather events in Europe
Web links
- Operation reports of the Austrian fire brigades , fireworld.at, from March 2nd, 2008 22:59:38
- Almost aircraft accident Landing attempt of the Airbus 320 Lufthansa flight LH44 at Hamburg Airport when a lateral gust hits the machine (Youtube video)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d “Storm 'Emma': Damage over 100 million euros” . In: Die Presse onlinee, March 3, 2008.
- ^ A b NZZ : Hurricane "Emma" rages across Europe March 3, 2008
- ↑ a b Financial Times Germany: "Emma" costs insurers one billion ( Memento from March 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), FTD.de, March 7, 2008
- ↑ Analysis map for February 28, 0:00 a.m. UTC. DWD, website of the Free University of Berlin.
- ↑ Styria got away with a black eye. ORF Steiermark online, March 3, 2008.
- ↑ The low storm season 2007/2008. ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2008 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. Meteomedia, last updated on March 11, 2008.
- ↑ Damage in the three-digit million euro range. In: Der Standard online, March 3, 2008.
- ↑ Reuters : “Dead and devastation in Europe due to hurricane 'Emma'” , March 2, 2008, 10:50 am CET
- ↑ Balance of Hurricane Emma , waldportal.org, March 2, 2008
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Video of the landing attempt by LH 044 (tagesschau.de archive)
- ↑ Photo of the ground contact
- ↑ Spiegel Online : "Hurricane gust hits aircraft - near-crash in Hamburg" March 2nd, 2008
- ^ Spiegel Online : "Osterhofen-Altenmarkt in Niederbayern: Here the steeple of the Asambasilika broke off and fell on the roof." March 2nd, 2008
- ↑ Der Standard online : "Fire brigade called out almost twice as often with 'Emma' as with 'Paula'" March 3rd, 2008.
- ↑ ORF.at : Government promises immediate aid ( memento of the original from March 9, 2008 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. March 3, 2008
- ↑ Hurricane Paula threw 6.2 million cubic meters of harvested wood . Forest & technology. February 4, 2008. Archived from the original on March 9, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 4, 2008.
- ↑ Emma: Storm damage in the forest is far below fear (OTS0132 5 WI 0191 MLA0002 CI Fr) In: Digital press kit . Ministry of Life. March 2008. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
- ↑ Sixth environmental control report from the Federal Minister for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management to the National Council , Chapter 7. Forests , Fig. 9, p. 321. In: Federal Environment Agency: Various publications. Volume 067, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85457-593-9 ( web document , pdf 0.8MB)
- ↑ Der Standard Online : “'Emma' claimed fourteen deaths across Europe” March 3, 2008
- ^ Storm "Emma": Death by tree predictable ORF March 22, 2008, accessed on January 29, 2009
- ^ Mladá fronta Dnes : "Vichr si vyžádal dvě oběti, dívka i farář zemřeli na hřbitově" , add the date
- ^ Mladá fronta Dnes : "Vichřice sebere ČEZ víc peněz než loňský orkán" , March 3, 2008
- ↑ a b c SME : "Emma spôsobila na Slovensku škody a zranenia" , March 1, 2008
