page_title: Cyclone Kyrill
section_title: Germany
hierarchical_section_title: Cyclone Kyrill / Impact / Casualties and fatalities / Western Europe / Germany
caption_attribution_description: Windbruch nach Kyrill in Balve
context_page_description: Cyclone Kyrill was a low-pressure area that evolved into an unusually violent European windstorm, forming an extratropical cyclone with hurricane-strength winds. It formed over Newfoundland on 15 January 2007 and moved across the Atlantic Ocean reaching Ireland and Great Britain by the evening of 17 January. The storm then crossed the North Sea on 17 and 18 January, making landfall on the German and Dutch coasts on the afternoon of 18 January, before moving eastwards toward Poland and the Baltic Sea on the night from 18 to 19 January and further on to northern Russia.
  Kyrill caused widespread damage across Western Europe, especially in the United Kingdom and Germany. 47 fatalities were reported, as well as extensive disruptions of public transport, power outages to over one hundred thousand homes, severe damage to public and private buildings and major forest damage through windthrow.
  The storm was named "Kyrill" on 17 January 2007, by the Free University of Berlin's meteorological institute. The storm was named after a Bulgarian man living near Berlin, whose family donated to the university's "Adopt-A-Vortex" programme.
context_section_description: Germany was the country most severely hit by the storm, with 13 casualties as of 21 January 2007. Most deaths occurred on the 18 and 19 January, though some victims were only injured at first and later died in hospital.
  In the Munich borough of Milbertshofen, an 18-month-old child was severely injured by a patio door that had broken out of its hinges. The child later died in hospital.
  Near Kirrlach in the state of Baden-Württemberg, a motorist tried to avoid a tree that had fallen onto the road and crashed into an oncoming vehicle. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
  A 73-year-old man was crushed by a barn door in Gersthofen in the district of Augsburg.
  A fireman was killed in Tönisvorst in North Rhine-Westphalia while cleaning up after the storm.
  A 36-year-old motorist was killed in Hildesheim by a fallen tree.
  A motorcycle driver slid under a tree in Essen, dying in hospital on 21 January.
  On the "Wiedenbrücker Straße" in Lippstadt, a 23-year-old woman was killed when her car was hit by a falling birch tree.
  A man was killed when a gable of a nearby building collapsed in Groß Rodensleben in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
  In Strausberg in Brandenburg, a 25-year-old man crashed into a fallen tree with his car.
  Near Finnentrop, a man died after not noticing a tree that had fallen onto the road and crashing into it.
  A man in Mülheim an der Ruhr was killed by a falling tree.
caption: Forest in Balve
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