Storm Barney

17–18 November 2015 · 2015-16 season · named by Met Office · Wales, England, Ireland

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85 mphmax gust

39flood warnings & alerts (England)

Strong winds (gusting 85mph at Aberdaron, Gwynedd) hit Ireland, Wales, the Midlands and southern/eastern England, cutting power to around 26,000 customers and disrupting rail; impact was predominantly wind.

Flood footprintEnvironment Agency warning history, England · storm total

0severe warnings

14flood warnings

25flood alerts

37areas

22counties

24rivers & seas

Counted from the Environment Agency's warning record for England (16–18 November 2015). Welsh warnings are held in a separate record and are not counted here, and FloodRadar only began recording Scottish warnings on 16 September 2026 because SEPA publishes no archive. So this is England's share of the storm, not its total.

Worst-hit areas

River Aire at West Haddlesey and Chapel Haddlesey2
Somerset coast at Porlock Weir2
Coastal areas of Seaford Sea Front1
Cuckmere River1
Earby Beck and Glusburn Beck Catchments1
English Dee from Shocklach to Chester1

Counties

North Yorkshire23
Westmorland and Furness6
Leeds3
East Riding of Yorkshire3
Cumberland3
Bradford3

Rivers & seas

River Aire4
River Swale4
River Ure3
Bristol Channel2
North Sea2
River Eden2

Flood mapthe storm's flood footprint

Red/amber rings mark rivers that reached or came close to their own high level during the storm — the most direct evidence of likely flooding (the gauge measures the river, not any one property). Solid dots mark each flood area's reference point, coloured by the most severe warning raised there — a warning means flooding was expected. Shaded shapes are the Environment Agency's recorded flood outlines: land actually observed flooded, published retrospectively (updated quarterly). England data only. An unshaded area means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record.

The rainstorm-total by gauge

Gauge	Total mm
Honister	103.2
Ennerdale Black Sail	88.4
Beckermonds	86.8
Footholme	85.0
Littondale	84.2
Far Gearstones	83.7
White Barrow	80.2
Brotherswater	78.8
Stocks	76.6
Seathwaite Farm	75.8
Tow Hill	73.6
Burnbanks	70.8

The riverspeak vs warning level

Station	Peak	% of warning
Hexham Tanners Row Downstream · Cockshaw Burn	0.13 m	433%
Hunsingore · River Nidd	2.34 m	334%
Wensor Bridge, Shelton · River Devon	4.85 m	285%
Cononley · River Aire	2.63 m	247%
High River Keer · River Keer	2.14 m	238%
Harwood · Harwood Beck	1.33 m	230%
Lodore · Derwentwater	3.13 m	224%
Roe Bridge · River Brock	3.31 m	221%
Coney Gut · Coney Gut	1.77 m	217%
Viking Recorder · River Ouse	4.08 m	215%
Pateley Bridge · River Nidd	1.92 m	213%
Far Sawrey · Windermere	2.08 m	208%

Gauge records cover 16–19 November 2015 (the storm window ± a day). Frozen 3 Jul 2026.

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