A strong storm will come to Germany

Storm system will affect quite a large area as far as models predict. The worst hit will be probably Great Britain and BENELUX area, where gusts might go well over 33 m/s. Severe winds should occur however also in Germany,Poland, Czech republic, Slovakia,Austria,etc.... By the way, convection could be widespread with cold front passage and with immense shear profiles there is a good chance of severe wind gusts or tornadoes if storms will become surface based and if at least some degree of instability does develop.
 
Hi Thomas
thank you very much for your appraisal. I also thought so.
The storm called “Emmaâ€￾ has had a very strong cold front. The weather models showed this very well. Estofex warned with Level 2.
http://estofex.org/cgi-bin/polygon/...e=2008030206_200802291858_2_stormforecast.xml
The cold front hit the area of Germany at midnight. The activity as recently growed in the course of the day. A well distinctive squall line involved from the north to the south area. Especially in the middle area have been gusts of about over 120 km/h. In Chemnitz have been gusts about 152 km/h. On the mountain “Wendelsteinâ€￾ have been gusts about 220km/h !!!
Cause of the named parameters for possible tornados there are now many tornado suspicions in our german forums.
http://www.skywarn.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=34
here is a radar animation:
http://www.wzforum.de/forum2/read.php?2,1303609
The consequence is that 4 people lost their lives and the number always rises. Also a lot of people are without electricity.

Greetings
Bernd
 
Now confirmed, a DERECHO has moved across much of Germany, Czech republic, Austria and into Hungary. In Czech republic, 2 people died. I have had an encounter with storm - wind gust measured in town Brno where I am staying was 33 m/s! Also heavy rain, hail and frequent lightning occured. This is unbelievable, nearly million of people lost their power due to the storm here and damage is windespread.
 
A hurricane? Who told this was a hurricane? We do not get these in Europe. Emma was a strong low pressure system but definitely it was not a hurricane. It did bring hurricane-force wind gusts to many places though.

And as instability developed ahead of cold front, which combined with strong frontal forcing and awesome wind profiles gave birth to squall line with bowing segments which hit many countries in Middle Europe. Damage path was enormous and wind gust measured up to 40 m/s in places. I am 100% sure, this event does meet any requirements that you must have to call storm a derecho.
 
The problem is probably that languages, such as Swedish, Estonian and German have word "hurricane" in two meanings... one is a tropical cyclone and another is hurricane force storm...
 
So, strong extra-tropical cyclones get a name in Europe? Is that true?
 
Dann Cianca said:
So, strong extra-tropical cyclones get a name in Europe? Is that true?
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Actually, this is very interesting story. Deutsche Wetterdienst started a campaign, where people could literally buy a pressure system with their or someones name. Btw, you can choose whether you want to be low or high. So ,every pressure system in German analysis maps has a name. Wetterdienst managed a financial crisis by this and earned some money for research and development. Of course, when cyclones are weak, no one notices. But it is natural for human beings to give names to things and when something significant happens, media like to refer to the storm system with its name.
 
Robert Dewey said:
That's why we have the smilies Mr. Dale, that's why we have the smilies...
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If I'm serious - you'll know it :D

What caught my attention is that we ran a story and specifically called it a hurricane. Guess the wires aren't too careful when it comes to weather info :eek:
 
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