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Italy’s Department of Civil Protection issued its criticality bulletin at 14:17 on 10 October, specifying alert levels for that Saturday. It listed moderate Orange hydraulic-risk criticality in named areas of Calabria. The Orange thunderstorm alert covered those Calabria areas and also Salento and the Lato-Lenne basins in Puglia.
For hydrogeological risk, the bulletin assigned moderate Orange criticality to specified areas of Calabria and Puglia. Its separate yellow/ordinary categories included areas in other regions; those regions were not listed at Orange for this risk. The bulletin describes possible weather effects and does not establish that flooding, infrastructure damage or water-supply interruptions occurred.