{"id":2229,"date":"2003-06-27T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-27T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/meteotsunamis\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2023-05-24T10:43:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T08:43:31","slug":"17-stari-grad-mali-ston-27-june-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/meteotsunamis\/17-stari-grad-mali-ston-27-june-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"(17) Stari Grad, Mali Ston, 27 June 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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(17) Stari Grad, Mali Ston, 27 June 2003<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Figure 1. Synoptic situation at the time of the event: (left) mean sea level pressure and 10-m wind; (middle) temperature and wind at 850 hPa; (right) geopotential height and wind at 500 hPa.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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This is another case in which Stari Grad was affected more than Vela Luka, and it is one of the few Adriatic events that are well studied. The event is described in three newspaper articles (Slobodna Dalmacija, 28 June 2003<\/a>; Ve\u010dernji list, 28 June 2003<\/a>; Vjesnik, 28 June 2003<\/a>) in which it is stated that \u201cthe large tidal wave, which on the Friday morning at about six o\u2019clock flooded the Stari Grad waterfront and even a wider area of the Vorba Park, resulted in enormous damage to the inhabitants of this old town\u2026 After the first tidal wave followed an even larger one, unseen up to now in Stari Grad. Its height was ca. 1 m above the columns, which was really frightful, and the wave resulted in vehicles being literally redistributed on the Stjepan Radi\u0107 Square… While receding, the tidal wave dragged along a wall, having the length of almost 60 m and the height larger than 2 m, whereupon the wall collapsed into the canal.”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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It is also mentioned in the articles that \u201con Friday between 7:30 and 9 hours a large tidal wave occurred in Mali Ston Bay. After the large water mass receded, strong currents literally swept away shellfish farm in the area between Mali Ston and Cape Nedilja close to Stonska Duba at a length of about six nautical miles.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The event was also recorded by four tide gauges in the area (Split, Su\u0107uraj, Plo\u010de and Dubrovnik), albeit with the amplitudes much smaller than in Stari Grad and Mali Ston (Vilibi\u0107\u00a0et al.<\/i>, 2004<\/a>).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This event was successfully reproduced by an oceanographic model that was forced by the observed air-pressure perturbation propagating above the sea (Vilibi\u0107\u00a0et al.<\/i>, 2004<\/a>). It turned out that the small air-pressure forcing, which did not surpass a few millibars, could have supported the sea-level and current variability indicated by the observations in Stari Grad and Mali Ston Bay, respectively. Moreover, the model results were consistent with the data recorded by the four tide gauges. The meteorological aspect of the event was studied \u2013 using observations and modeling \u2013 by\u00a0Belu\u0161i\u0107\u00a0et al.<\/i>\u00a0(2007)<\/a>. They found that the air-pressure perturbation was related to a mesoscale convective system, which had been triggered above the Alps and then propagated toward the southeast (i.e., along the East Adriatic coast).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Synoptic situation observed during the 27 June 2023 meteotsunami event is somewhat atypical. Mean sea level pressure field was relatively uniform over the Mediterranean, resulting with only weak surface winds over the Adriatic. At the 850 hPa level, a tongue of warm air was advancing from the western Sahara towards the Adriatic Sea. Peculiarity of the situation is revealed at the 500 hPa height, where northwesterly wind of ~20-25 m\/s was blowing over the Adriatic Sea. The synoptic situation was also analysed by Vilibi\u0107 and \u0160epi\u0107 (2009)<\/a>. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(17) Stari Grad, Mali Ston, 27 June 2003 Figure 1. Synoptic situation at the time of the event: (left) mean sea level pressure and 10-m wind; (middle) temperature and wind at 850 hPa; (right) geopotential height and wind at 500 hPa. This is another case in which Stari Grad was affected more than Vela Luka,… Continue reading (17) Stari Grad, Mali Ston, 27 June 2003<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meteotsunami","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/meteotsunamis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/meteotsunamis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/meteotsunamis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/meteotsunamis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/meteotsunamis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/meteotsunamis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/meteotsunamis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/meteotsunamis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/meteotsunamis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/meteotsunamis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/meteotsunamis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}