Hurricane Sabine

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Sabine / Ciara / Elsa
classification North Atlantic low
storm hurricane
Data
Beginning February 7, 2020
Climax 9/10 February 2020
Top gust 219 km / h ( Cap Corse , France)
consequences

Sabine , mostly Ciara in Western Europe and Elsa in Norway , was a hurricane that hit large parts of Europe from February 9-10, 2020.

Predicted spread and extent

Wintry weather on February 9th in Nitzahn, Brandenburg, with wind movement on the ground

The highest wind strengths were forecast for February 9th to 11th. There was a hurricane storm warning for the British Isles and the North Sea area in particular . Wind peaks of up to 175 km / h were considered possible for the Brocken , and even up to 200 km / h for the peaks in the Alpine region . For the Norwegian coast, a storm surge warning was issued for February 10 and 11, with tide peaks up to 80 cm higher. It was predicted that the air pressure there could drop to an extremely low value of 940  hPa . The previous Norwegian record value was 940 hPa for Bergen in 1884.

On February 8, 2020 00:00 UTC , the core pressure of the low pressure vortex west of Iceland was only 930 hPa.

In fact, the wind peaks reached 178 km / h on the Feldberg and 170 km / h on the Brocken. In eastern France up to 200 km / h are said to have been measured, on the Schneekoppe 180 km / h. On the completely free-standing, 2502 m high Säntis , the gusts reached up to 188 km / h.

Effects

Personal injury

The hurricane left fourteen dead and several injured. In Germany, a man died as a result of a storm-related fall in the Freyung-Grafenau district when he was hit by a gust. An 82-year-old woman in Lower Saxony died as a result of a traffic accident when she was pulled onto the roadway by the wind and run over. A 36-year-old man also died in a traffic accident in Switzerland due to strong winds in which a trailer hit the opposite lane.

In Scotland , a 77-year-old died after a fall. In England and Slovenia , one person was killed in a car by trees, and in England, too, a pedestrian was fatally injured by a falling branch. A woman and her daughter died in Poland when parts of the roof of a ski rental fell down . There were three more injured. One person died in hospital from her injuries. In Italy , a 77-year-old died after being hit by falling parts of a roof. Two men were killed in Sweden after their boat capsized in Fegensee . In Thuringia , a man was seriously injured after being blown off a house roof. According to the state interior ministry , 13 people were injured by the storm in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , seven of them seriously and six slightly. In Saarland three people were injured.

During clean-up work, a forest worker in Lorch-Wollmigart had an accident on February 16.

traffic

Cleaning up in Linz

As a precaution for Storm Sabine, passenger flights have been canceled at several airports in Germany. The airports in Düsseldorf , Cologne / Bonn , Paderborn / Lippstadt , Frankfurt , Munich , Berlin-Tegel and Bremen were affected . The Lufthansa announced flights to 10 February 2020 13:00, set. Sections of the motorway were closed and ferry services to the North Sea islands were discontinued. The ADAC advised against driving during the storm. Long-distance train traffic of Deutsche Bahn AG was discontinued on February 9, 2020 at around 5 p.m. in North Rhine-Westphalia and nationwide from 6 p.m. An Intercity train from Amsterdam to Berlin with 300 passengers hit a fallen tree near Salzbergen in Emsland and was stuck for two hours. Train and air traffic was also restricted or discontinued in sections of Sweden , the Netherlands , Great Britain and Switzerland. Eurowings ceased most of its flight operations.

In Austria the Franz-Josefs-Bahn , the Mittenwaldbahn , the Mühlkreisbahn , the Pyhrnbahn and the Summerauer Bahn were temporarily closed . Individual local streets had to be cleared of fallen trees. The Czech Railways announced on February 10, 45 disturbances in the rail network, of which were not resolved at 19 o'clock 31st

In international air traffic, “Sabine” set a new speed record for crossing the Atlantic at the speed of sound. A Boeing 747 (G-CIVP) took just 4 hours and 56 minutes to travel from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport and landed at 4:43 am local time (5:43 am CET) two hours earlier than planned. The usual travel time in this direction is more than 6 hours. At the top, instead of the usual 900 km / h, between 1287 km / h and 1328 km / h were flown. The sound barrier was not broken by the surrounding air flow . Two other machines also managed a flight time for this route under five hours.

It was a normal winter storm; In the opinion of Jörg Kachelmann, attitudes towards rail traffic in Germany were incomprehensible.

Buildings

Storm damage to Frankfurt Cathedral by scaffolding and crane on the roof of the south transept (February 10, 2020)

The Frankfurt Cathedral was damaged by the hurricane Sabine. The storm drove under the boom of a tower crane standing by the cathedral , lifted it, initially set it vertically and tilted it further, over the vertical, onto the counter-jib, above which it bent. The kinked part of the boom damaged the roof ridge and the roof of the south transept.

Closure of facilities and cancellation of events

On Sunday, February 9th, 2020, the storm led to the cancellation of several major sporting events, including the Rhenish Bundesliga club between Borussia Mönchengladbach and 1. FC Köln , all games in the top Belgian and Dutch leagues, and games in the far north of France as well as the ski jumping world cup in Willingen , and the closure of public facilities.

Due to the hurricane, school and daycare operations were stopped on February 10, 2020 in several regions of Germany and Switzerland or the decision to send their child to school was left to the parents. In the night of February 11, 2020, one of the Bergbahnen Wildhaus ski lifts in the Toggenburg ski area was so badly destroyed that it could no longer be repaired.

The Wacken Winter Nights festival , which was supposed to take place from February 14th to February 16th, 2020, was canceled due to the hurricane. Due to the weather conditions, the corresponding construction work could not be carried out on schedule.

Floods and blackouts

Hamburg's fish market underwater during storm surge 2020 on February 10th, caused by hurricane Sabine. The sky over the fish market hall standing in the water is bathed in a pale yellowish-orange light, the late afternoon sun shines through a cloud hole into the otherwise gray-gloomy clouds. A few small waves, driven by the wind, wash over the wet cobblestones of the street, street lamps and the bus stop in front of the elongated building on the bank stand in the water, the light is reflected in glass windows of an otherwise dark facade on the opposite side of the street on the right and on the water surface. The jetty on the left in the picture is partly flooded by Elbe water, behind it harbor cranes in the distance and some three-bladed wind turbines.
Flood on the Altona fish market (February 10, 2020)

Floods and power outages occurred on the coast of Great Britain and Ireland . The Altona fish market in Hamburg was a storm surge , according to the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic flooded. The water rose up to 2.76 meters above mean flood . In Bavaria , too, there were power outages in over 60,000 households. At noon on February 11, around 150,000 to 200,000 people in South Tyrol were affected by a power failure.

Coastal erosion

Storm surges triggered by the storm washed away the bathing beach on Wangerooge almost completely. Coastal erosion caused 80,000 cubic meters of sand to be lost.

Wind energy

Due to the hurricane, wind power plants set a new European wind power record with a feed-in of 109 GW . In Germany, wind turbines delivered up to 43.7 GW, which means that wind energy temporarily covered almost three quarters of the entire electricity requirement.

See also

Web links

Commons : Orkan Sabine / Ciara  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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