Storm Event

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Source

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Pathway

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Receptor and Consequence

This event was mentioned in a compilation of historical coastal floods in North West Europe developed by Hickey (1997) and was associated with storm surge in Norfolk. Coastal flooding was also reported from Faversham (Zong and Tooley, 2003). Lamb (1991) reported that disastrous flooding occurred from Holland to Denmark drowning more than 800 people and many thousands cattle but there was no mentioned of England being affected.

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References

  1. Hickey, K. R. (1997). Documentary records of coastal storms in Scotland, 1500-1991 A.D. Coventry University. Available at: https://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/file/aa6dfd04-d53f-4741-1bb7-bdf99fb153be/1/hick1comb.pdf.
  2. Zong, Y. and Tooley, M. J. A. (2003). ‘Historical Record of Coastal Floods in Britain: Frequencies and Associated Storm Tracks’. Natural Hazards, 29, 13–36. Available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1022942801531 (Accessed: 5 March 2015).
  3. Lamb, H. H. (1991). Historic Storms of the North Sea, British Isles and Northwest Europe. Cambridge University Press. Available at: http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/19318/excerpt/9780521619318_excerpt.pdf(Accessed: 13 March 2015).