A tornado broke out near the town of Nowy Soncz, southeast of Krakow, Poland, on Thursday afternoon. In the villages of Librantowa and Koniuszova, thirty residential houses and the same number of farm buildings were damaged. One person is injured, writes PAP with reference to local authorities. Elsewhere in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, hailstones the size of hens’ eggs fell.
Polish meteorologists have issued a top-level warning for four voivodships, writes Gazeta Wyborcza. All four regions are located in the south or southeast of the country. Meteorologists warn against hail and downpours, the wind can reach speeds of up to 130 kilometers per hour, the Polish newspaper said.
In Germany, the outage affected the vaccination center due to flooding of the hall, people ordered for Thursday were re-ordered for another date. In Tübingen itself, traffic was disrupted as streams of water flowed through the streets. Many cars and houses were damaged. Stuttgart Airport had to shut down several times, and there were complications on the railways.
In Reutlingen, according to police, hailstones the size of tennis balls fell. The injury rate of five people is not yet known.
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In the area south of Stuttgart, firefighters had hundreds of exits to draw water from cellars and remove fallen trees. The stormy weather in Germany is to continue, gradually moving east.
In Lower Austria, around Hollabrunn, 650 firefighters had to deal with the aftermath of a storm in which hailstones the size of a tennis ball fell. They damaged dozens of roofs and cars. Water flooded the cellars during the flash floods, and the fallen trees broke the power and telephone lines. The APA wrote that “there was an end-of-the-world atmosphere in Hollabrunn.”
In the village of Fülöpháza in central Hungary, 40 degrees Celsius was measured on Thursday, the highest temperature since the beginning of the measurement in June 1901. The nineteen-year-old temperature record fell in the northern part of Budapest, where the thermometer showed 38.1 degrees Celsius. Throughout Hungary, the temperature measured in the warmest part of the day averaged 37 degrees Celsius, which is ten degrees above the long-term average.
It also warmed to 38 degrees Celsius in Mužla near Komárno, Slovakia. However, a cold front is advancing from Slovakia to the west, and local meteorologists have issued a storm warning.
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