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Impact
30 Oct. winds to S of low,  strong winds spread east with rain falling through the night developed a wrap-around and heavy precipitation to the WNW sleet turning to snow on the pennines

England & Wales
96 mph reached at mumbles, Wales 3rd nov summary http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/998440.stm http://www.rms.com/Reports/UKFLOODS_NOV2000.pdf

Selsey Tornado 7am 30th October http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1372581/Unlucky-Selsey-struck-by-second-tornado-in-two-years.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/holiday-camp-gets-a-taste-of-midwest-as-twister-leaves-its-mark-on-coastal-town-634476.html Oratia i Oratia ii http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/998246.stm
 * http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=157800

tornado

tornados in selsey, south coast wind damage, wind damage in France, london eye damage, transport chaos across the South of england downed trees on rail and roads http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1372575/Gales-strand-6000-on-Channel-ferries.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1372576/Trail-of-devastation-across-the-country.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/997494.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1001309.stm http://www.thefreelibrary.com/DEATH+ON+THE+WAVES%3B+Man+is+swept+overboard+in+hurricane+hell.-a066439424 http://www.rte.ie/news/2000/1030/storms.html North East train services were cancelled and trains from Scotland could only go as far as York.

shropshire bewdley shrewsbury flooding (31-4)

rain 2nd heavy in english midlands yorkshire and river severn particularly affected. River Severn at Shrewsbury was flowing at 10 times it's usual volume for the time of year. 1-3 nov yorkshire flooding Yorkshire Malton Norton also flooded in 1999 River Aire at Apperley Bridge, Bradford, Yorkshire 31st German on uk

Denmark & Norway
Gorm Field MS Faros (rescuer lost) 30 October 2000 storm. Water entering the engine room - the ship will have engine trouble and could no longer maneuver. The 86 meter long ship was carrying 2100 tons of wood, was lopsided in the 12-15 meter high waves and it became necessary to evacuate the seven crew members. " sinks on the 3rd November while under towIt could not be done, to rescue the crew directly up into the helicopter, because of the high waves and the ship heeled - succeeded but for the crew to get a life raft in the water. The rescue ship west coast now put a lifeboat down to relieve it, by now somewhat exhausted crew in the fleet .. Since there were 8 men in the lifeboat, it was hit by a rough sea, it tipped around and all the smoke into the sea - among them, 58 year old sailor, Ole S. Olesen from rescue ship west coast. All were, after several hours of unsuccessful attempts, rescued by helicopter, but the sailor was dead and it was not possible to revive him. The 7 crewmembers from Faro, was rescued alive. "3 november 2000, Faro sinks under tow, but stand for several days with the bow above the water and stern on the seabed before it is finally to rest next to Kandestederne"

In Norway record high water levels recorded at Tregde sorland 160 cm over sea level

http://www.statkart.no/filestore/Sjkartverket/Rapporter/Ocean_Dynamics_Gjevik_Flather_Hareide.pdf http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/Archives/2000sum.htm

Aftermath
Flooding http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=945 -Nasa before and after image of river Exe 28th and 30th showing flooding from Oratia. Flooding in the UK in the wake of Oratia incurred approximately 840 million Euro.http://nedies.jrc.it/doc/FloodsSUMMARY.pdf

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Jeanett

 * http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2367089.stm
 * http://news.sky.com/story/136103/french-help-repair-storm-damage
 * http://www.torro.org.uk/site/wind_info.php