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Archive Cat 2 · Moderate

Storm Eva

23–24 December 2015 · 2015-16 season · named by Met Eireann · England, Ireland

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83 mphmax gust
108flood warnings & alerts (England)
Eva brought 80+ mph winds and heavy rain on 23-24 December, triggering the devastating Boxing Day floods across West Yorkshire (Calderdale, Hebden Bridge, Leeds), Lancashire and already-saturated Cumbria.

Flood footprintEnvironment Agency warning history, England · storm total

0severe warnings
34flood warnings
74flood alerts
93areas
43counties
56rivers & seas

Counted from the Environment Agency's warning record for England (22–24 December 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

  • North Sea Coast at Bridlington3
  • Isles of Scilly2
  • Lower River Tees and Estuarine Tributaries2
  • Poole Harbour2
  • River Greta at Keswick, Keswick Campsite, Rugby Club and Quinta2
  • River Kent at Burneside, Bournville, Bridge St, Carling Dale, Ivy Cresent, New Road and St2

Counties

  • North Yorkshire27
  • Westmorland and Furness23
  • Cumberland15
  • Northumberland8
  • County Durham6
  • Dorset Council5

Rivers & seas

  • River Eden8
  • English Channel6
  • River Kent6
  • River Ure6
  • River Swale5
  • Irish Sea3

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

GaugeTotal mm
Beckermonds 121.2
Littondale 114.6
Thruscross 113.2
Tow Hill 109.4
Footholme 107.2
Scar House 107.2
Gorpley 106.6
Grimwith 106.4
Thornton 104.2
Sedbusk 103.6
Halifax Ogden 103.4
Stocks 101.4

The riverspeak vs warning level

StationPeak% of warning
Silsden · Silsden Beck 0.37 m 346%
Pateley Bridge · River Nidd 2.75 m 306%
Skirfare Bridge · River Skirfare 1.75 m 301%
Kielder Butteryhaugh · River North Tyne 1.62 m 289%
Sharnbrook · River Great Ouse 2.42 m 289%
Nunnington · River Riccal 1.25 m 284%
Castle Foregate · Bagley Brook 1.08 m 251%
Roe Bridge · River Brock 3.64 m 243%
Mytholmroyd Dauber Bridge · Cragg Brook 0.71 m 232%
Rawcliffe · Blue Beck 2.30 m 228%
Whitewater Bridge · River Maun 1.77 m 221%
Appleby · River Eden 3.94 m 219%

Gauge records cover 22–25 December 2015 (the storm window ± a day). Frozen 3 Jul 2026.

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