Hurricane Vivian
| Vivian | ||
|---|---|---|
| time | February 25-27, 1990 | |
| Wind speeds (wide) | 120 to 160 km / h | |
| Top gust | 268 km / h | |
| Lowest air pressure | 940 hPa | |
| Affected regions | British Isles, France, Benelux, Germany, Switzerland | |
| Fatalities | 64 | |
| Amount of damage | approx. € 1.11 billion
EUR 1.5 billion insured damage in Germany |
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Vivian was caught in a series of severe hurricanes in 1990. From February 25 to 27, 1990, it struck large parts of Europe and killed 64 people. Wiebke followed a few days later. After hurricane Andrew in 1992 (USD 26.5 billion) and the hurricane lows Daria in 1990 and Lothar in 1999 (each with around USD 6 billion), as well as the Western European hurricane in 1987 (USD 4.3 billion), Vivian / Wiebke is with $ 4 billion insurance loss one of the most expensive Atlantic storm lows in history (as of 2002). In his report “Winter Storms in Europe - History from 1703 to 2012”, Aon Benfield assumes an insured loss in Germany of 1.5 billion euros. In Switzerland, the amount of damage was estimated at "a good" 1 billion francs.
Wind speeds
On February 25, 1990, the air pressure over the northern North Sea was 950 hPa . While the low moved to the northeast, it deepened to 940 hPa. In the Swiss Alps, unmeasured peak gusts of up to 268 km / h were measured in the Swiss Alps on the pass of the Great Sankt Bernhard, and up to 160 km / h in the lowlands. A severe storm prevailed throughout Germany with wide-ranging speeds of around 120 to 130 km / h.
Effects
Germany (15 fatalities), Great Britain , Ireland , France , the Netherlands , Belgium and Switzerland were particularly affected.
There were several successive storm surges in Hamburg . Because of the storm was in Dusseldorf the Rosenmontagszug postponed to May while he was in Cologne took place under high security.
The amount of storm wood in Switzerland was 4.9 million m³; 24 people were killed there during the processing of the storm wood.
See also
Web links
- DWD, Extreme Weather Events in the 20th Century (PDF file; 412 kB)
- Munich Re on the storms of 1990 and 1999 ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 2.3 MB)
- How much "disturbance" can the forest tolerate? Text and audio to a long-term study of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape on the consequences of Vivian ..
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winter storms in Europe. History from 1703 to 2012. (PDF) Aon Benfield, January 2013, pp. 18–19 , accessed on March 11, 2014 .
- ↑ Natural and man-made disasters 2001: Man-made damage of a new dimension. In: sigma 1/2002, Swiss Reinsurance Company, p. 23.
- ↑ Winter storms in Europe. History from 1703 to 2012. (PDF) Aon Benfield, January 2013, pp. 18–19 , accessed on March 11, 2014 .
- ↑ NZZ: How “Burglind” differs from “Lothar”
- ^ Gaudenz Flury: 25 years of Vivian. srf.ch, February 26, 2015, accessed December 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Hazard and risk analysis of the canton of St.Gallen ( memento of the original dated January 30, 2018 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. (Page 54)
