windstorm in France, 1999

Event details

ID 20228
Country France
Year 1999
Start date 1999-12-26
End date 1999-12-26
Windstorm source Lothar
Event Type windstorm
Area affected (km^2) 578000
Fatalities 88
Persons affected 3400011
Regions affected FR10, FRB0, FRC1, FRC2, FRD1, FRD2, FRE2, FRF1, FRF2, FRF3, FRG0, FRH0, FRI2, FRJ1, FRJ2, FRK1, FRK2, FRM0
Regions affected [Regions names] Île de France, Centre - Val de Loire, Bourgogne, Franche-Comté, Basse-Normandie, Haute-Normandie, Picardie, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne, Lorraine, Pays-de-la-Loire, Bretagne, Limousin, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées, Auvergne, Rhône-Alpes, Corse
Losses (nominal value) 7506264000
Losses (original currency) EUR
Losses (mln EUR, 2020) 10
Cause
Notes Compound slide (land;mud;snow;rock) 173km/h
References: http://tempetes.meteo.fr/Lothar-26-dec...
tempetes.meteo.fr/IMG/anthemis_cartogr...
https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.g...
https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.g...
EM_DAT_windstorms
https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu
doi.org/10.5194/nhess-3-725-2003
https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01111
https://www-meteo--paris-com.translate...

Regions affected