Storm Katie

28 March 2016 · 2015-16 season · named by Met Office · England

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106 mphmax gust

237flood warnings & alerts (England)

1UK deaths

An Easter Monday storm with gusts up to 106mph at The Needles felled trees, damaged buildings, closed bridges and cut power to around 100,000 across southern England; mainly wind damage rather than flooding.

Flood footprintEnvironment Agency warning history, England · storm total

0severe warnings

48flood warnings

189flood alerts

233areas

80counties

183rivers & seas

Counted from the Environment Agency's warning record for England (27–28 March 2016). 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
Brooks in the Wyre Forest2
Middle Stour from Hammoon to Sturminster Marshall2
Barbourne Brook1
Bartley Water1
Beaulieu Estuary1

Counties

Staffordshire27
Devon25
Dorset Council20
Worcestershire19
Derbyshire19
Gloucestershire17

Rivers & seas

River Stour6
River Penk5
Dorset Frome4
River Dove4
North Sea3
River Medway3

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
Walkmills	218.2
White Barrow	70.2
Dartmoor	67.5
Prewley	64.0
Cannings	61.8
Bellever Dartmoor	57.4
Gunnislake	56.8
Sticklepath	56.2
East Okement	56.2
Dousland	56.0
Bovey Tracey	55.7
St Cleer	55.0

The riverspeak vs warning level

Station	Peak	% of warning
Clifton Hall · River Mease	5.47 m	370%
Shipston · River Stour	3.06 m	316%
Quixhill · River Churnet	2.31 m	292%
Bacons End · River Cole	1.07 m	278%
Calthorpe Park · River Rea	1.13 m	272%
Burton Bradstock · River Bride	1.39 m	262%
Rodbourne · Gauze Brook	0.92 m	261%
Cheswick Green · River Blythe	1.39 m	255%
Tubbs Bottom · Bristol Frome	1.48 m	250%
Stoke Prior · River Salwarpe	0.88 m	243%
Perry Park · River Tame	2.10 m	242%
Whitewater Bridge · River Maun	1.94 m	242%

Gauge records cover 27–29 March 2016 (the storm window ± a day). Frozen 3 Jul 2026.

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