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Storm Kathleen

6–7 April 2024 · 2023-24 season · named by Met Eireann · Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, England

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70 mphmax gust
127flood warnings & alerts (England)
An unseasonably strong April storm bringing orange-warning winds to western Ireland and Northern Ireland, felling trees and cutting power. Rain on saturated ground ran quickly into rivers, with coastal flooding and wave overtopping at high tide, especially in Munster.

Flood footprintEnvironment Agency warning history, England · storm total

0severe warnings
21flood warnings
106flood alerts
109areas
59counties
63rivers & seas

Counted from the Environment Agency's warning record for England (5–7 April 2024). 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

  • South Cornwall coast from Lizard Point to Gribbin Head excluding Truro City3
  • Tidal Thames riverside from Putney Bridge to Teddington Weir3
  • Christchurch Harbour2
  • Christchurch Harbour Side2
  • Climping Seafront2
  • Coast at North Morecambe Bay2

Counties

  • Cornwall15
  • Herefordshire9
  • Hampshire9
  • Worcestershire8
  • Gloucestershire8
  • North Yorkshire8

Rivers & seas

  • English Channel12
  • North Sea11
  • South Cornwall Coast10
  • Irish Sea8
  • River Thames5
  • Groundwater4

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
Burnbanks 85.4
Wet Sleddale 85.3
Glenridding Greenside Mines 83.0
Coniston Coppermines 79.1
Seathwaite Farm 72.8
Moorahill Farm 70.8
Brotherswater 70.7
Honister 70.0
High Row 70.0
Orton - Shallowford 67.2
Kentmere Hallow Bank No2 66.7
Mickleden Middle Fell Farm 62.8

The riverspeak vs warning level

StationPeak% of warning
Mansfield The Dykes · River Maun 3.16 m 316%
Leighton Buzzard · River Ouzel 1.03 m 316%
Wensor Bridge, Shelton · River Devon 4.70 m 276%
The Causeway · Dimore Brook 1.41 m 260%
Hexham Tanners Row Downstream · Cockshaw Burn 0.07 m 247%
Stanford Bridge · River Teme 3.25 m 238%
Worksop · River Ryton 2.38 m 227%
Weetwood Bridge · River Till 2.52 m 223%
Fairburn Sluices · Aire Washlands 4.38 m 214%
Whitewater Bridge · River Maun 1.59 m 199%
Wimpole · River Rhee 0.68 m 199%
Kielder Butteryhaugh · River North Tyne 1.10 m 197%

Gauge records cover 5–8 April 2024 (the storm window ± a day). Frozen 3 Jul 2026.

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