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Hurricane Fiona
Status: Closed
| Type of posting | Posting date(EST): | Summary | Downloads |
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| Canada SSEs | 9/26/2022 12:00:00 PM |
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| Bermuda Update | 9/23/2022 10:00:00 AM |
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| Similar Stochastic Events | 9/19/2022 3:00:00 PM |
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Canada SSEs | Summary
Posting Date: September 26, 2022, 12:00:00 PM
Post-tropical cyclone Fiona tore through Atlantic Canada Friday night and Saturday, setting a record as the most intense storm by minimum central pressure (931.6 mb, well below the previous record of 940.3 mb, per the Canadian Hurricane Centre) to impact the country since records have been kept. The storm brought storm surges as high as six feet, torrential rain, and damaging winds to Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and parts of Quebec.
ALERT™ subscribers can download similar stochastic event (SSE) IDs for Hurricane Fiona from the Downloads tab of this posting on the ALERT website. Compatible with Touchstone® and Touchstone Re™, the SSEs were selected based on Fiona’s key meteorological parameters. They should only be used with exposures in Canada. Please see the Readme provided with the similar stochastic events spreadsheet for additional information on these selections.
One of the hardest hit areas was Channel-Port aux Basques, a small community on the southwest tip of Newfoundland. As many as 20 homes were lost to the estimated three-foot storm surge in this seaside town, with an additional 200 damaged. To the east, in the community of Burnt Islands, videos showed several homes with significant damage and debris scattered across the area. Charlottetown, the provincial capital of Prince Edward Island, was also hard hit, with images on social media showing at least one home with a collapsed ceiling, and reports of roads, bridges, and other critical infrastructure washed out. As of Monday morning, nearly 300,000 homes were still without power across the affected area, per poweroutage.com.
Gusts of 70 to 90 mph and higher were reported over a wide area within the storm’s footprint. Sydney, on the eastern side of Cape Breton, reported sustained 10-minute winds of 60 mph with a 3-second gust up to 88 mph. Other locations reporting extreme wind observations included Beavan Island (78 mph sustained, 93 mph gust), St. Paul Island (76 mph sustained, 98 mph gust), and the town of Arisaig on the north side of Nova Scotia (75 mph sustained, with a gust of 111 mph). While the winds measured were not as extreme as one might anticipate based on the minimum pressure for a typical hurricane (931.6 mb is a pressure typically correlated with category 4 hurricanes), the storm’s expanded wind field meant tropical storm and hurricane force winds were experienced over a very wide area (consistent with the typical structure of a post-tropical cyclone).
While the Verisk ALERT team continues to monitor and study the impact from Fiona in both the Caribbean and Canada, no additional ALERTs are planned for this event at this time.
Canada SSEs | Downloads
Posting Date: September 26, 2022, 12:00:00 PM
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Similar Stochastic Event IDs
Note: These lists give event IDs taken from our stochastic catalog that have similar characteristics as the current event.
| Product | File Type | Description | Download |
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| TOUCHSTONE / Re | Excel (xls) | Selected set of stochastic events with Readme in Excel format |  |
| TOUCHSTONE / Re | CSV (csv) | Selected set of stochastic events formatted for import into Touchstone/Re | |
