List of severe weather phenomena

The list of weather events in Europe provides an overview designated as severe weather extreme weather events, including natural disasters (damaging events) of historical importance. The names are assigned according to national usage, see Naming weather events.

Legend

  • Event: Sortable by floods, wind events (storm, hurricane, tornado ) and storms, and other weather events (snow falls and their consequences, hail, cold anomalies, anomalies of heat and drought, etc. )

List

  • Date: data from October 1582 in the Julian calendar is not converted, then in the Gregorian calendar ( inaccuracies in countries that have adopted the new calendar later are possible)
  • Victims: reported deaths, and Affected
  • Damage: Known loss amounts in million EUR, allfällig value converted: Historical estimates are generally economic damage, a value as insurance damage is naturally vary according to event something to an order of magnitude lower than the economic damage. Older data are usually lower because the damage calculations proceeded differently, early events can hardly be estimated
  • Remarks: sortable by known or estimated return period
  • Record cold in Russia in December 2012
Extreme weather events of 535–536 Storm surge West Frisian Islands Altenwerder All Saints' Flood (1304) Bay of Greifswald Ruden Natural disaster#Floods Rungholt St. Elizabeth's flood (1404) IJzendijke St. Elizabeth's flood (1421) Hollands Diep All Saints' Day Flood of 1436 Eidum All Saints' Flood (1570) Little Ice Age Burchardi flood Strand (island) Treaty of Roskilde Volcanic winter Mount Asama 1872 Baltic Sea flood Tay Bridge disaster Fujita scale Reichsmark Winter of Terror Bundeswehr Winter of 1962–63 in the United Kingdom German Bight Windthrow Gale of January 1976 Fastnet Race British Isles Western Europe Great Storm of 1987 Central Europe 1997 Central European flood Oder 2005 European floods Cyclone Anatol Cyclone Jeanett 1540 Cyclone Gudrun 1969 Cyclone Emma (2008) Cyclone Klaus Eastern Alps Carpathian Mountains Cyclone Xynthia Mediterranean tropical cyclone North Africa Caucasus Mountains France Storm tides of the North Sea List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
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