Storms reached Germany from the west in the late evening. First France suffered from hail, then there was lightning and storming in the Rhineland. Here you can find out which regions are hardest hit.
Shortly before midnight, the first storm front reached the Rhineland, with speeds of 60 km / h and hailstorms. Jörg Kachelmann’s weather service even warned of a possible risk of tornado. Residents reported violent thunderstorms.
In Bonn it flashed and thundered before midnight, accompanied by hail and rain. There were particularly severe thunderstorms here. There were initially no reports of floods. The Deutsche Bahn reported a partial train cancellation due to storms between Dierighausen and Mererzhagen.
User JoJo Asakura posted a video of lightning and thunder near Duisburg on Twitter.
When entering Germany, the weather front stretched from Rotterdam to Trier. The first storm cells can now also be seen in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. An extremely large number of lightning bolts could be seen at 1 a.m. in the southern Hunsrück. It rained particularly heavily in Düsseldorf, Mönchengladbach and Duisburg. At Gummersbach there were gusts of wind with a speed of up to 100 kilometers per hour.
At 2 o’clock the storm had moved northeast and reached the north Hessian city of Limburg an der Lahn. A high level of lightning activity and thunderstorms were registered in Siegen and Marburg as well as in Bad Camberg.
In France, it rained hailstones with a diameter of up to 10 centimeters from the sky in Vercel-Villedieu le Camp. There was damage to vehicles and buildings in almost the entire village.
On Sunday afternoon there can also be increasingly severe thunderstorms with heavy rain, large hail and possibly hurricane gusts.
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