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IGNITE STAGE
Tehran thunderstorm: an unexpected success story
14 March 2015
ABBAS OSTAD TAGHIZADEH
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Tehran, The capital of Iran
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General information
Tehran, Iran.
Iran administrative divisions
Tehran General InformationKey Information
Province Tehran
Latitude 35 40 N
Longitude 51 26 E
City 1500 km (579 sq mi)
Urban 686 km (265 sq mi)
Elevation 1200 m (3,900 ft)
Population(2006) about 11,000,000
Density10000/km
(25,899/sq mi)
Time zone 3.5 GMT
District 22
Sub District 155
Neighborhood (Mahalleh) 375
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Introduction
• On Monday afternoon 2nd June 2014 at 17:30 local time (9:00 a.m. U.S. EDT) an unexpected thunderstorm of speed as high as 118 km/h hit Tehran.
• This thunderstorm plugged the city into darkness for hours, affected the citizens and damaged properties
Thunderstorms
• Thunderstorms are kind of severe unstable weather with gusty, locally generated horizontal winds associated with lightning, thunder, often with rain, and sometimes with hail.
• Previously, Tehran had not experienced a similar event.
Meteorological changes
• The temperatures suddenly dropped from 33.83 centigrade at 16:10 to 18.46 at 18:10.
• The air humidity rose from 14.2 % to 68.4% (54.2%changes).
• The wind speed suddenly increased at 17:00 and only during 20 minutes reached to 118 km/h.
Meteorological changes
Human Impacts
Property impacts
Response phase
• Tehran emergency operation and command center was organized.
• Rapid assessment and emergency response teams started to manage the event.
• One hundred electricity response teams, 15 search and rescue teams, Emergency Medical teams and municipal teams were involved in response phase.
• Finally after six hours about 24 response phases were finished and the city entered to recovery phase
How this disaster made Tehran more resilient
Lessons Learned
1. Strengthening HSE regulation
• 87.5% of deaths and at least 77.5% of injuries occurred by fallen buildings material or fallen trees.
• Unsafe construction process could explain a part of reasons.
• Despite insurance of HSE- MS in construction industry, It was not well settled.
• Now Tehran has more implemented HSE System. • Education of construction workers (urban planners,
architectures, civil engineers) is mandatory now.
2. Public Education and Preparedness plan
• When thunderstorm was blowing, the people were running and walking in streets and the cars were moving.
• Since this kind of disaster was unusual in Tehran, the people were not educated and prepared for it.
• After this event, Tehran developed a comprehensive public education plan for disaster prevention and education and will implemented it in the next years.
3. Investment on CBDRM
• Pictures showed that the citizens were waiting until the responders arrived and opened the ways.
• This event emphasized that community based disaster risk management approach and promotion of social responsibility is a necessity for disaster risk management.
• Tehran is planning to increase the number of Volunteers group in the next 5 years.
4. Investment on early warning systems
• This storm showed that the weather notification and early warning system in Iran needs to improved and clarified for responders.
• There were no appropriate forecasting equipment and software as well as early warning systems.
• Iran Parliament deployed more budget for Iran’s meteorological system to improve and use advanced now casting and early warning systems.
5. Disaster recovery Fund
• This thunderstorm highlighted absent or inefficient mechanisms of risk transfer and loss compensation in local governance level.
• Tehran City Council issued an act to provide Disaster Recovery Fund. Based on this act, part of annual budget of Tehran municipality will be saved in a fund and allocated for compensating the property losses in possible future disasters.
• Moreover, the local authorities are obligated to insure citizens against disasters.
Conclusion
• Every disaster shows the failures of the management systems and provokes for new plans to reduce further risks.
• Both managers and the community are expected to be prepared for, respond to, and recovery from all hazards.
• To make cities resilient to disaster, public education, community participation, inter– disciplinary collaboration, appropriate and strict rules and regulations for disaster risk reduction and management are essential strategies.