Hurricane Wiebke
| Wiebke | ||
|---|---|---|
| time | February 28 - March 1, 1990 | |
| Wind speeds | 130 to 200 km / h | |
| Top gust | 285 km / h | |
| Affected regions | Germany (Switzerland, Austria) | |
| Fatalities | 35 | |
| Amount of damage | EUR 1.5 billion insured damage in Germany | |
Wiebke was a severe hurricane that raged over Germany and parts of Switzerland and Austria on the night of February 28 to March 1, 1990 . It completed a series of eight storms that raged across Western and Central Europe in late winter 1990 ( Daria , Herta, Judith, Nana, Ottilie, Polly, Vivian and Wiebke).
description
Wiebke reached wind speeds of 130 to 200 km / h, on the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland there were even gusts of 285 km / h.
Victims and damage
The storm claimed a total of 35 lives. The damage caused to forestry , houses and cars ran into billions. A large number of trees, especially whole stands of spruce , Douglas fir and beech , were bent or thrown like matches , especially in low mountain regions. Projections assume 60 to 70 million solid cubic meters of storm wood in the German forests , which at that time corresponded to about twice the annual harvest in Germany. As a result of postponed thinning measures , the causes of damage in the forest were in some places homemade.
Follow-up costs resulted from the costly reforestation of former, non-site-appropriate softwood stocks with hardwood . During the dangerous processing of storm wood, accidents occurred long after the actual storm event due to high-speed logs from windthrow nests. The storm wood, which was produced in large quantities at short notice, brought several times the annual fall of coniferous wood onto the market and led to a drop in prices. In addition, in some places no more softwood could be felled for years. The establishment and operation of wet storage facilities for the preservation of the recovered wood resulted in additional high costs for several years. As a result, the actual financial damage caused by Hurricane Wiebke cannot ultimately be quantified.
As after other storms, there was a shortage of long timber transporters, which were needed to quickly transport the resulting wood and thus avoid any loss of value. Forestry companies and timber transporters from Norway , Sweden , the Northwest of the USA and other timber-producing nations were brought to Germany to help and caused further costs. By fast Brin narrowing but the spread of could and wet storage of conifer bark beetles - calamities be prevented.
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.
See also
literature
- Collective of authors: 10 years of forest development after storm “Wiebke”. Investigations in spruce storm forests in Baden-Württemberg . Reports Freiburg Forest Research, No. 32. Published by the Forest Science Faculty of the University of Freiburg and the Forest Research and Research Institute Baden-Württemberg. Forestry Experimental and Research Institute Baden-Württemberg - Department of Botany and Location Studies, Freiburg im Breisgau 2001, 205 pp.
Web links
Contribution of the Bavarian Radio - "Day of the Forest" - 25 years later (1st min.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winter storms in Europe. History from 1703 to 2012. (PDF) Aon Benfield, January 2013, pp. 18–19 , accessed on March 11, 2014 .
- ↑ The severe hurricane series 1990 ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2015 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. at wetteronline.com
- ↑ Winter storms in Europe. History from 1703 to 2012. (PDF) Aon Benfield, January 2013, pp. 18–19 , accessed on March 11, 2014 .
