Event details

ID	21188
Country	United Kingdom
Year	1976
Start date	1976-01-02
End date	1976-01-05
Windstorm source	Capella
Event Type	windstorm
Area affected (km^2)	4830
Fatalities	24
Persons affected	100000
Regions affected	UKC1, UKC2, UKD1, UKD3, UKD4, UKD6, UKD7, UKE1, UKE2, UKE3, UKE4, UKF1, UKF2, UKF3, UKG1, UKG2, UKG3, UKH1, UKH2, UKH3, UKI3, UKI4, UKI5, UKI6, UKI7, UKJ1, UKJ2, UKJ3, UKJ4, UKK1, UKK2, UKK3, UKK4, UKL1, UKL2, UKM5, UKM6, UKM7, UKM8, UKM9, UKN0
Regions affected [Regions names]	Tees Valley and Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside, East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire, West Midlands, East Anglia, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, Essex, Inner London - West, Inner London - East, Outer London - East and North East, Outer London - South, Outer London - West and North West, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, Surrey, East and West Sussex, Hampshire and Isle of Wight, Kent, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area, Dorset and Somerset, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Devon, West Wales and The Valleys, East Wales, North Eastern Scotland, Highlands and Islands, Eastern Scotland, West Central Scotland, Southern Scotland, Northern Ireland (UK)
Losses (nominal value)	111300000
Losses (original currency)	GBP
Losses (mln EUR, 2020)	858
Cause
Notes	Compound with flood
References:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_of_... https://cdn.knmi.nl/knmi/pdf/bibliothe... https://ec.europa.eu/environment/fores...

Regions affected