Geografie 1988, 93, 265-278

https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie1988093040265

The Extraordinarily Violent Cloud-Burst and the Subsequent Flood on the Brook Jílovský potok on July 1, 1987

Václav Chamas1, Vilibald Kakos2

1Český hydrometeorologický ústav, pobočka Ústí nad Labem, Kočkovská 2699, 400 21 Ústí nad Labem, Czechia
2Český hydrometeorologický ústav, Na Šabatce 17, 143 00 Praha 4 - Komořany, Czechia

In the centre of the rainstorm as much as 195 mm of rainfall have fallen in the course of 90 minutes. The cloud-burst resulted in more than 100-year flood. The calculated rainfall intensity as well as the specific runoff unit-yield in several localities have been the greatest in the Czech Socialist Republic in this century.

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