[10] Storm Eunice formed on 17 February on a complex cold front situated west of Azores.
[14] The roof of the Ghelamco Arena was damaged, resulting in the postponement of the First Division A match between Gent and Seraing scheduled for 18 February.
[15] In Tournai, parts of a crane were torn loose and fell on a hospital, damaging the roof and top floor.
[17] Public transport was temporarily suspended in large parts of Flanders, with NMBS and De Lijn both announcing trains, buses, and trams were scrapped.
The cargo ship Diamond Sky drifted through two offshore wind farms, but arrived at its final destination in the Netherlands without sustaining any damage.
The Maersk Nimbus oil tanker was forced to lie at anchor in the C-Power offshore wind farm until its rescue by tugboats the next day.
In Temse, a man sustained a major head injury after a metal plate was ripped off a construction site container.
[citation needed] The storm had left 26,000 homes without power and several railway lines in the country were suspended.
Regional trains in Hauts-de-France and Normandy were suspended, and the Lille-Flandres station was temporarily evacuated after debris fell on the glass roof.
Two people died in separate car accidents in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia in connection with the storm, authorities said.
[31][32] A man died after falling when trying to repair a damaged roof near Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony in the municipality of Wurster Nordseeküste.
Photographs show that the main post had snapped where the quarterbars join and the mill had blown over onto its side.
The water level in the river Danė [lt] in Lithuania's port town Klaipėda rose rapidly and flooded streets in the city centre, and shipping in the region had to be stopped.
In addition, national retailers, courts and town halls stopped services across the country in the afternoon.
[55] The Eredivisie match between Fortuna Sittard and Sparta Rotterdam scheduled for the evening of 18 February was postponed as the safety of players, staff and supporters could not be guaranteed due to the extreme weather conditions in the area.
[62] In the early evening of 18 February, several houses in The Hague were evacuated following reported instability in one of the two towers of the Elandkerk [nl] in the town's Zeeheldenkwartier neighbourhood.
The storm brought down thousands of trees, and blocked road and rail transport (mainly in Pomerania, Mazovia, Greater Poland, Warmia and Masuria).
[67] The highest gusts were recorded on the morning of 19 February in the Baltic port of Łeba (119 km/h) and on Śnieżka mountain (162 km/h).
Schools were widely closed,[73][74] along with public facilities (e.g. libraries),[75] delivery services,[76] sea crossings,[77] and several bridges.
[79] The Langstone Bridge closed for almost three hours over fears of high tide surges, cutting off Hayling Island as the only road to and from the settlement.
[78] Authorities across the country were inundated with phone calls related to the storm, with some having to ask the public only to dial 999 if there was a risk to life.
London Fire Brigade declared a major incident – receiving 1,958 calls on Friday, three times more than the previous day.
[85] An elderly man was injured when a section of roof was blown off the Bournemouth Sands Hotel in Westbourne.
[86] Police in Highgate, north London, said they were called to reports of a tree falling on a car at 16:00 GMT.
The man killed in Merseyside was a passenger in a car heading towards Aintree at about 14:10 when debris reportedly hit the windscreen, police said.
[90] The de Havilland Venom display plane outside Grove Business Park, Wantage, Oxfordshire collapsed in high winds.
[93] The early 21st century bandstand at the De La Warr Pavilion on Bexhill-on-Sea seafront in East Sussex was destroyed.
in Kessingland, Suffolk was smashed by a fallen tree; the zoo had moved the lions indoors ahead of the storm and the expected high winds, in accordance with its policy on dangerous animals.
[111][112][113] On 19 February, a yellow warning was issued in southern Wales and the coast of South West England for wind and another for ice in Flintshire.