Storm depression Xavier

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Xavier
Xavier over northern Germany (KNMI analysis, October 5, 12 UTC)
Xavier over northern Germany (KNMI analysis, October 5, 12 UTC)
Wind force heavy storm
Data
Beginning 4th October 2017
The End October 6, 2017
minimum air pressure 985 hPa
Spitzbö (flat land) 136 km / h ( Berlin-Wannsee)
Spitzbö (mountainous region) 201 km / h ( Schneekoppe)
consequences
affected areas Germany, Poland, Czech Republic
Victim 9

The storm depression Xavier was a fast moving , severe storm with hurricane gusts that moved across northern and eastern Central Europe from October 4 to 6, 2017 and caused great damage. A total of nine people died as a result of the storm, seven in Germany and two in Poland .

course

The storm Xavier moved in the night of 4 to 5 October 2017 the United Kingdom for the North Sea , reaching the late morning, the German-Danish border region. The development typically took place after a Shapiro-Keyser cyclogenesis . During the course of October 5, the storm fields on the west and south flanks intensified. The storm reached northwest Germany ( Lower Saxony , Schleswig-Holstein ) around noon and crossed Saxony-Anhalt and the southern areas of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the afternoon . Towards evening there was a heavy storm (10  Bft ) in Brandenburg , Berlin , Thuringia and Saxony , sometimes with hurricane gusts (12 Bft). The strongest gust in the lowlands was registered at 136 km / h in Berlin-Wannsee , on the Brocken it was 177 km / h.

In the further course of the Polish weather station Schneekoppe on the border with the Czech Republic measured the strongest gust of 201 km / h. After the 216 km / h measured there during Hurricane Kyrill , this is the second highest value measured in the mountains since records began.

Effects

Germany

In Berlin, Hamburg , Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, seven people were killed by the storm. In Berlin, the journalist Sylke Tempel was killed by a tree.

Fallen trees in front of the Berlin Memorial Church

Because the trees - unlike in late autumn storms - were still fully leafy, they offered large areas of attack for the storm. Therefore, wind breakage occurred widespread . The railway stopped traffic on many routes. 240 long-distance and 7,800 regional trains were canceled, 500 damaged areas in the network were registered. 400 passengers were evacuated from the Eurocity from Amsterdam to Berlin shortly after the Dutch-German border. Deutsche Bahn and private railways installed hotel trains in several large train stations as a heated stay for stranded passengers during the nights.

In Berlin and Potsdam , the Berlin city motorway and both airports were closed for several hours during rush hour and local public transport was suspended. During this time, the Berlin fire brigade handled over 3000 weather-related missions.

Overturned loading crane on the Lower Saxony Bridge in Wilhelmshaven

At the Lower Saxony Bridge in the port of Wilhelmshaven , the storm plunged a loading crane weighing over 1000 tons into the jade. The damage was estimated at over a million euros.

Several railway lines were so badly damaged that traffic did not normalize until the following week, with disabilities two weeks later.

Poland

In Poland, two people were killed and 39 injured by the storm ( Lubusz Voivodeship , Greater Poland Voivodeship ). The west and south of the country were particularly hard hit. Several national roads and railway lines were closed.

Around 800,000 residents were temporarily without electricity. Around 40,000 helpers were deployed and the emergency services were called to around 10,000 missions in Poland.

Czech Republic

In the Czech Republic, the fire brigades deployed hundreds of times. A regional train hit a fallen tree near Bělá u Staré Paky . Several railway lines and roads were completely closed because of fallen trees.

Web links

Commons : Storm Xavier  - Collection of images
 Wikinews: Storm Xavier  - Message

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ A b "Xavier": Several deaths, traffic chaos and rescue workers in constant use . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on October 6, 2017]).
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  4. ↑ Adrian Leyser: storm XAVIER - the day after . In: Topic of the day . German Weather Service. October 6, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
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  6. ↑ Storm depression Xavier and how the DWD informed about it in advance. German Weather Service , October 5, 2017, accessed on October 6, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Severe storm XAVIER in Germany: Verification of MeteoGroup's warnings. October 6, 2017, accessed October 6, 2017 .
  8. ↑ "Xavier" blows at 137 km / h in front of Berlin. n-tv news television, October 5, 2017, accessed October 6, 2017 .
  9. ↑ a b 7 people die as storm causes chaos in Germany . In: Mail Online . ( dailymail.co.uk [accessed October 6, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart, Germany: News blog about the storm "Xavier": Rail traffic from Berlin to the south resumed . In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de . ( stuttgarter-nachrichten.de [accessed on October 6, 2017]).
  11. ^ "Xavier's" damage balance . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 2017, p. 27 ( online ).
  12. ↑ Gudrun Mallwitz: Hurricane "Xavier" paralyzes Berlin. In: Berliner Morgenpost . October 6, 2017. Retrieved October 9, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Potsdam - Storm Chaos puts traffic in Potsdam lame. In: Märkische Allgemeine . October 5, 2017. Retrieved October 9, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Storm damages over 20,000 trees Berlin.de, the official capital city portal. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  15. ^ End of the state of emergency press release from the Berlin fire brigade. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  16. ↑ Storm depression "Xavier": A multi-ton harbor crane crashes into the Jade Spiegel Online on October 5, 2017. Accessed on December 20, 2017.
  17. ↑ Storm "Xavier": Rail traffic is gradually normalizing. In Tiroler Tageszeitung online (tt.com), October 7, 2017.
  18. ↑ Five days after storm “Xavier”: Rail traffic is slowly returning to normal. In: Epoch Times online, October 10, 2017.
  19. ↑ Xavier: Bahn has to close again. In: Nordwest Zeitung online, October 13, 2017.
  20. ↑ Wojciech Tomaszewski: Tedy Idzie Xavier. Huragan uderzył w lubuskie, wielkopolskie i łódzkie. Setki tysięcy ludzi bez prądu. Wichura zmiata nawet ciężarówki (Polish) . In: wolnosc24.pl , 5S Media Sp. Z oo, October 5, 2017. Accessed October 8, 2017. 
  21. ↑ Nawet 16 godzin opóźnień na kolei. Wszystko z powodu orkanu Ksawery (Polish) . In: Gazeta Wrocławska , Polska Press Sp. Z oo, October 5, 2017. Accessed October 8, 2017. 
  22. ↑ Vichr Lamal Stromy a omezil provoz vlaku, Některé domy na inscribed proudu (Czech) , Mladá fronta DNES. October 6, 2017. Retrieved October 8, 2017.