Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 25, issue 12
Articles | Volume 25, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-4807-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-4807-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 25, issue 12
Brief communication
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04 Dec 2025
Brief communication |  | 04 Dec 2025

Brief communication: How extreme was the thunderstorm rain in Vienna on 17 August 2024? A temporal and spatial analysis

Vinzent Klaus, Johannes Laimighofer, and Fabian Lehner

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On 17 August 2024, a thunderstorm in Vienna led to a record-breaking rainfall of 107 mm in two hours. An analysis of the exceptionally long hourly rain gauge time series (since 1941) estimates this event's return period at 700 years. The extremity of the event is further confirmed by neighboring weather stations and rain-radar data. Linking the return period to atmospheric temperature shows that such events might occur more often with rising temperatures.  
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