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List of storms

The following 27 storms were selected because they are the top `non-insurance' storms as ranked by the storm severity index Sft = U3maxN. These storms may not have high recorded insurance losses either because they missed large urban areas, or because of incomplete loss data records. See the storm selection for more details.

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Storm Date+ Insured loss (USD, indexed to 2012)** Affected countries Umax++(ms-1) Lowest MSLP*** (hPa) Maximum vorticity+++(10-5-1) Sft****
Jan 86 20/1/1986 NA Denmark and Germany 31.86 971.06 9.44 29.77
Mar 86 25/3/1986 NA Netherlands 30.77 955.76 9.21 16.40
Oct 86 20/10/1986 NA Germany, Netherlands and Poland 35.80 966.33 7.73 26.79
Feb 88 9/2/1988 NA Ireland and United Kingdom 35.79 941.97 13.25 17.42
Nov 88 29/11/1988 NA Belarus, Lithuania and Poland 30.84 967.04 10.04 18.33
* Storm is an addition to the original 50 storms.
+ The date given is the date that the maximum 925hPa windspeed from ERA Interim over the Continental European land mass.
** Insured losses are from Swiss Re Sigma, No 1/2004, No 2/2006, No 2/2009, No 1/2011, No 2/2012 and No 2/2013. Losses have been converted to be indexed to 2012 values. Insured loses for the storms after 2012 are from PERILS indexed to 2014 and converted to USD using 1€ = $1.12.
++ Maximum 925 hPa wind speed from ERA Interim re-analysis data over the Continental European land mass within a 3° radius of the cyclone track
*** Mean sea level pressure from ERA Interim re-analysis data.
+++ Maximum vorticity at 850 hPa from ERA Interim re-analysis data, smoothed to T42 resolution.
**** Sft measures strength of storm and is described in selection section.



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