Skane hurricane

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The Skane hurricane was a hurricane that hit western and northern Europe between October 16 and 18, 1967. It caused severe damage, particularly in Germany, Denmark and southern Sweden, and claimed at least 32 lives.

Origin of the weather situation

The starting point for the low was the American east coast. A subtropical low formed there on October 12, 1967 near Cape Hatteras , which, following the control of the Azores high, quickly crossed the Atlantic in a west-east direction. On October 17, the low of the Central England quickly crossed the southern North Sea, reinforced by the hurricane low, and moved via Jutland to southern Sweden. In the course of development, the air pressure gradient on its rear side worsened considerably, so that there was a hurricane there under the influence of cold air. Above all, over Jutland and southern Sweden, wind speeds were observed that could not be measured with the anemometers that were customary at the time because they were blocked. It is estimated that wind speeds of over 180 km / h were reached in peak gusts on Zealand . Since the low was a so-called fast runner , which crossed the sea area with its storm field at the time of the low tide , there was a failure of the low tide on the German North Sea coast and in the adjacent river areas. A storm surge did not materialize, although at that time still available in the show German Bight lightships the strength of 12 after at the statements made by them hourly weather reports for several hours hurricane Beaufort scale was reported.

Damage

The storm caused severe damage both at sea and inland. The Lebanese coal freighter Nagusena sank off the coast of Jutland . Only one of the 22 crew members could be saved. The enormously high wind pressure broke countless shop windows in the city centers. Numerous roofs were covered, house walls were dented and trees were uprooted. Between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m., the Hamburg fire brigade had to drive over 700 missions. Serious damage occurred primarily in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, in Denmark and in southern Sweden. In Skåne , large areas have been practically deforested. Here almost 10 million cubic meters of wood fell victim to the storm.

Since there was a lot of particularly severe damage to flat roofs in the cities, which flew away as a whole, a debate arose in the subsequent period about the safety of such roofs in the event of a storm.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To the naming: Kruhl, Heinrich (1977): Storm surge weather conditions of the last decades. In: Yearbook of the Hafenbautechnischen Gesellschaft vol. 1975/67. Hamburg: 337-349
  2. ^ Kruhl, Heinrich (1977): Storm surge weather conditions of the last decades. In: Yearbook of the Port Construction Society. Vol. 1975/67. Hamburg, pp. 337-349.
  3. ↑ http://vejret.tv2.dk/artikel/id-1335243:stormen-den-17-oktober-1967.html (Danish)
  4. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt No. 244 of October 19, 1967
  5. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt No. 244 of October 19, 1967