Hurricane low "Zeynep" claims fatalities in Germany - pictures show scenes of devastation
Created: 02/19/2022, 12:16 p.m
By: Christina Denk, Martina Lippl
Hurricane low "Zeynep" hits northern Germany with full force.
Several people died in the storm night.
Fire brigades continue to work.
The news ticker.
DWD lifts warning of hurricane gusts on Saturday morning
(update from February 19, 10:25 a.m.).
Hundreds of liters of diesel leaked on the A7
(update from February 19, 9:43 a.m.)
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Hurricane Zeynep withdraws.
Storm damage becomes visible
(Update from February 19, 9:20 a.m.)
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The storm night claimed several lives
(see update from February 19, 7:09 a.m.).
This news ticker on the weather* in Germany is updated regularly.
Update from February 19, 10:25 a.m
.: The German Weather Service (DWD) lifted all warnings of hurricane gusts on Saturday morning.
In the northeast and by the sea, however, there can still be severe gusts of wind and hurricane-force gusts (120 km/h) on the Baltic Sea.
In the middle of Germany it is still quite stormy.
The wind will continue to decrease until evening.
Hurricane "Zeynep" sweeps over Germany - photos
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Hundreds of liters of diesel leaked on the A7
February 19 update at 9:42 a.m
: After an accident caused by the storm "Zeynep", 400 liters of diesel fuel spilled on the A7 motorway on Friday evening.
According to the police, the foundation of a traffic sign near Hildesheim had come loose due to the storm, causing it to buckle and fall onto the road.
A semi-trailer truck driver was no longer able to avoid it and drove over the obstacles.
The tank ruptured and hundreds of liters of fuel spilled over the road.
Due to the strong wind, the liquid spread further and further, the police reported.
The fire brigade came and pumped several hundred liters of diesel out of the semitrailer to prevent further leakage.
The highway had to be closed in both directions for several hours.
After hurricane "Zeynep": Dikes must be checked
Update from February 19, 9:20 a.m
.: Hurricane "Zeynep" whipped across the country with wind speeds of up to 170 km/h.
Fire brigades are in constant use.
Hamburg experienced a severe storm surge on Saturday morning.
The hurricane has left its mark.
Gradually, the damage becomes visible.
After the severe storm surge on the North Sea and Elbe, the dikes and protective structures are now being examined for damage.
At first glance, it looks pretty good, said the deputy director of the state agency for coastal protection, national park and marine protection, Michael Kruse, on Saturday morning about the situation on the Schleswig-Holstein Elbe dikes.
He could not say anything about possible sand losses on the islands.
"We are currently assessing the damage."
Hurricane "Zeynep" rages: In Büsum (Schleswig-Holstein), a pedestrian bridge is washed over by the waves of the North Sea.
© Daniel Reinhardt/dpa
The beach on the island of Wangerooge was almost completely washed away in the storm
The North Sea island of Wangerooge lost about 90 percent of its beach in the storm.
"There is hardly any sand over a distance of one kilometer," said Wangerooges island mayor Marcel Fangohr on Saturday morning.
The protective dunes in front of the drinking water protection area no longer had a revetment, which had to be replenished like the beach.
Nevertheless, the storm ended lightly, the hurricane "Zeynep" did not cause any serious damage.
Update from February 19, 7:09 a.m .:
A very severe storm surge has reached Hamburg, in Bremen a 55-meter-high construction crane fell during storm "Zeynep".
Two people were killed by the hurricane on Friday: According to the police, a driver died on Friday evening near Altenberge in North Rhine-Westphalia when he crashed his car into a tree lying across the road.
The trapped 56-year-old died at the scene of the accident.
The WDR
had previously
reported about it.
In the Lower Saxony municipality of Wurster Nordseekueste, a man fell from a roof during the storm and died.
The 68-year-old tried to repair the damaged roof of a stable on Saturday night, the police said.
He broke through the roof and fell about ten meters down.
In another fatal accident in North Rhine-Westphalia, the fire brigade initially assumed a storm-related cause.
A man was driving his car in Saerbeck when his vehicle overturned, according to the police.
A spokesman for the fire department said on Friday evening that his car was probably hit by a gust of wind.
A police spokesman could not confirm this when asked early on Saturday morning.
At least nine people died across Europe.
Three people each also died in the Netherlands and Great Britain.
Belgium and Ireland also reported fatalities.
Hurricane "Zeynep" hits Germany with full force - and claims two more lives
Update from February 18, 10:35 p.m .:
The number of storm deaths from hurricane low “Zeynep” and its predecessor “Ylenia” increases to four.
As the WDR reports, two drivers died in the Steinfurt district around 9 p.m.
A tree fell on a car on the B54 near Altenberge.
In Saerbeck, a vehicle was hit by a gust of wind and then rolled over.
Hurricane low "Zeynep" electrifies a street in North Rhine-Westphalia: Police and fire brigade in large numbers
Update from February 18, 10:16 p.m .:
The storm leaves its mark: In Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, a fallen tree tore down a power pole.
As the
WDR
reports with reference to the police, there is tension on the road on Emmericher Straße.
She had to be banned.
Elsewhere, roofs were torn off and trees fell.
Many places are without electricity.
In Duisburg, however, parts of a vaccination center that have come loose at the main station are threatening to fall onto the motorway.
Between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. there were almost 3,000 police and fire brigade operations in NRW, reports the
WDR
.
Update from February 18, 9:56 p.m .:
First all-clear for North Rhine-Westphalia.
"The cold front has passed through NRW," said a meteorologist from the German Weather Service (DWD) in the evening.
On the Kahler Asten in Sauerland, the storm reached a top speed of 120 kilometers per hour.
Wind speeds of 119 kilometers per hour were measured in Gütersloh and 115 kilometers per hour in Cologne.
The situation in North Rhine-Westphalia will gradually ease over the course of the night.
But the storm has left its mark.
Trees, construction fences and street signs fell over.
In Solingen, a person was injured by falling roof tiles, a city spokesman said.
In Mülheim, according to the fire brigade, several 25-meter-high beeches fell from a piece of forest across the street and landed on house roofs.
The residents had to evacuate the buildings.
In other areas, such as Hamburg, the peak of the storm is still expected.
The facade of a multi-storey building on Mecumstrasse in Düsseldorf (NRW) was torn down by the storm.
© David Young/dpa
Storm warnings for numerous major cities: "Zeynep" is already causing hurricane gusts of up to 130 km/h
Update from February 18,
8:34 p.m .:
More and more weather stations in the lowlands are reporting hurricane gusts at 120 to 130 km/h.
There are also hurricane warnings for many large cities.
Wind gusts of up to 100 km/h are also expected in Berlin.
However, the peak of the storm has not yet been reached in Germany.
The full force of the storm is not expected to hit Germany until around midnight.
Affected cities:
Bremen
Hanover
Hamburg
Muenster
keel
Brunswick
Goettingen
Oldenburg
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Aachen
Duisburg to Dortmund
Luebeck
Hurricane low "Zeynep": Numerous operations are already underway - fallen trees and flying roof tiles
Update from February 18, 8:06 p.m
.: Germany is feeling the first effects of the hurricane “Zeynep”.
The storm is said to have even more severe consequences for all of northern Germany than its predecessor "Ylenia", which swept across the country in the last few days.
A storm surge has been announced for Hamburg.
Cologne felt the strongest gusts around 4 p.m.
The wind was so fierce that people fell and trees were uprooted, according to the
Kölner Stadtanzeiger
.
The Hanover fire brigade has already reported 26 ongoing operations with 114 forces on site.
Most due to falling roof tiles and fallen trees.
According to the emergency services in Celle, a roof of a hall was caught by the wind.
Trees also block some roads in the Harz Mountains.
The emergency services are on site.
Storm depression "Zeynep" claims the first fatalities in neighboring German countries
Update from February 18, 6:32 p.m .:
The DWD is now warning of level 4 extreme storms (violet warning level) on the North Sea.
In northern Germany there can be gusts of wind force 10 to 12 until the early hours, and gusts of over 140 km/h in some parts of the North Sea.
Exactly such speeds were measured on the Dutch coast by the hurricane low.
Three people have already been killed in the Netherlands by "Zeynep".
A person was killed by a falling tree in Amsterdam, the fire department said on Twitter on Friday.
A few hours later, a cyclist was killed by a tree in the south of the city.
A third person died when a tree fell on his car in the Amsterdam suburb of Diemen.
The DWD warns of extreme storms on the North Sea.
© Screenshot DWD
Hurricane "Zeynep": Wuppertal's suspension railway is at a standstill
Update from February 18, 5:47 p.m .:
In Wuppertal, the storm temporarily paralyzed the suspension railway on Friday afternoon.
A branch fell on a train and got stuck in the pantograph, said a spokesman for Wuppertaler Stadtwerke (WSW).
According to the information, the vehicles are in the stations.
All passengers could have got out.
Once the branch has been cleared, operations should resume.
Deutsche Bahn has stopped all long-distance traffic in northern Germany.
Hurricane low "Zeynep" rolls towards Germany: Storm predecessors destroyed parts of the concentration camp memorial
Update from February 18, 5:25 p.m .:
Hurricane low “Zeynep” rolls towards Germany.
The storm "Ylenia" had previously caused unrest.
"Ylenia" partially collapsed the historical camp wall in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial in Oranienburg.
About 200 meters in length, parts of the approximately 2.80 meter high eastern camp wall, which surrounded the triangular prisoner camp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, were affected, as the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation announced on Friday.
The damage cannot yet be quantified, but according to estimates by an expert from the foundation's real estate department, it is probably in the six-digit range.
The camp wall, which was built in Nazi Germany in 1937 and has largely been preserved in its original form, was part of the security systems that surrounded the prisoner camp.
According to the information, they consisted of a death strip, which the prisoners were not allowed to enter, an electrically charged fence, the guard post and the camp wall.
The wall had already been damaged several times by hurricanes in the past, it said.
Storm low Ylenia brought the storm to Germany.
Now threaten with hurricane low "Zeynep" gusts at 160 km / h.
© Matthias Bein/dpa
Hurricane low "Zeynep" has already arrived in neighboring countries - this is coming to Germany
First report from February 18th:
Offenbach – hurricane low “Zeynep” is getting closer.
There is already a lot going on in the neighboring countries, the German Weather Service (DWD) reports via Twitter.
The hurricane shifted from the British Isles to the North Sea on Friday afternoon and to southern Sweden on Saturday night.
Hurricane low "Zeynep": "Extreme storm" hits Germany
There are two phases: First the cold front reaches the west.
There can already be gusts of wind, severe gusts of wind.
Hurricane-like gusts and hurricane gusts are to be expected in northern and central Germany.
In the ridges and peaks of the low mountain ranges, the weather experts expect heavy gusts of wind to hurricanes, on exposed peaks - such as on the Brocken - gusts of more than 140 km/h are not excluded.
With the withdrawal of the cold front in the south-west and south, the wind quickly dies down again.
In the north, on the other hand, things continue: The second phase begins on Saturday night with individual short thunderstorms with heavy gusts of wind or hurricane-force gusts.
In the North Sea area, especially in the area of the East Frisian Islands, the Elbe estuary and on the Dithmarschen coast, isolated gusts of between 130 and 150 km/h can be expected for several hours.
According to the DWD: "EXTREME WEATHER".
In the night to Saturday, the snow line drops to 800 to 600 meters.
There can be 5 centimeters of fresh snow in the Alps by Saturday morning, and up to 10 centimeters in the Allgäu.
A severe storm surge is threatening in Hamburg.
The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) warns of a severe storm surge on the North Frisian coast: On Saturday evening, night floods on the North Frisian coast will be 2.5 to 3 meters higher than the average high tide.
The storm is expected to subside again in the early hours of Saturday.
The hurricane schedule
The DWD announced in its current situation report that the first gusts of wind will start in the west and north-west of Germany on Friday afternoon.
Storm gusts in the rest of Germany on Friday evening and on Saturday night.
Friday night: Hurricane gusts of more than 140 km/h (EXTREME WEATHER) on the North Sea and in some higher areas on Saturday night.
Hurricane gusts expected in Germany: In these circles, the warning level is purple
In some counties on the North Sea coast, the German Weather Service (DWD) has now issued the highest warning level (purple).
Extreme hurricane gusts with wind speeds of up to 140 km/h are warned.
Lower Saxony
District of Aurich - inland
district of Aurich - coast
city of Emden
district of Wittmund - inland
district of Wittmund - coast
district of Leer
district of Friesland - inland
district of Friesland-coast
district of Wesermarsch - inland
district of Wesermarsch - coast
district of Cuxhaven - inland
district of Cuxhaven - coast
district of Stade
city of Bremerhaven
Schleswig-Holstein
district of Dithmarschen - inland
district of Dithmarschen - coast
district of North Friesland - inland
district of North Friesland - coast
district of Schleswig-Flensburg - inland
Saxony-Anhalt
Harz district - mountainous region
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