Ripped roofs and trees across the road. Of severe thunderstorms swept across eastern France on Tuesday evening. Five departments were even in red vigilance until 10 p.m.
: the Doubs, the Jura, the Upper Rhine
, Haute-Saône and the Territory of Belfort. Twenty others were classified as orange vigilance for thunderstorms. This Wednesday morning, there is no longer any department in orange or red vigilance. 12 departments are still on yellow alert. And only the Alpes-Maritimes are on orange alert during the heat wave.
At the time of the assessment, this Wednesday morning, the damage is essentially material. There are no injuries.
The roof of a collapsed supermarket in Côte d’Or
In Dijon (Côte d’Or), 350 square meters of ceiling collapsed in a supermarket. Warehouses have also been struck by lightning and gusts of windincluding a 3,000 square meter building in Sainte-Marie-la-Blanche, near Beaune, Precise France Blue Burgundy
. In the hamlet of Bourguignon, still near Beaune, around forty houses were badly affected by the storms. The hailstones pierced the roofs. A hundred firefighters were mobilized throughout the department in the evening, for a hundred interventions.
The 355 passengers of a TGV took refuge in a primary school in Alsace
In the Haut-Rhin, a TGV in the direction of Zurich had to stop in the town of Sierentz. The 355 passengers were welcomed by the town hall, in the primary school gymnasium for the night. Sleeping arrangements have been offered by civil protection associations, indicates the prefecture. THE firefighters intervened more than 200 timesmainly for trees falling on the roadway, reports France Bleu Alsace
. The Bas-Rhin firefighters received nearly 600 calls and carried out more than 100 interventions. A inhabitant of Haut-Rhin
even saw the roof of his house fly away before his eyes.
Wind gusts of up to 109 km/hour were recorded at Basel-Mulhouse airport. At 10 p.m., about 6,000 homes were without electricity in the Haut-Rhin, at the height of the storm. At 5 a.m. this Wednesday morning, around 1,400 families were still without power, said the prefecture. Technicians are still working to restore power.
Hailstones “as big as pétanque balls” in the Allier
In the Allier, firefighters were called for a hundred interventions, mainly in the town of Gannat, west of Vichy. The emergency services covered the roofs for long hours. Several roofs of houses were damaged by large hailstones , “the size of a petanque ball” says the mayor of the town on France Bleu Pays d’Auvergne
which caused infiltration.
6,500 households without electricity in the Jura at the height of the storm
A high voltage line has been broken in the Jura. 6,500 homes were left without electricity, but that didn’t last long. At 8 p.m. the current had returned for the Jura residents, reports France Bleu Besançon
. 1,300 families found themselves without electricity at 9 p.m. in the Territoire de Belfort. They were 3,900 homes by candlelight in the Haute-Saône department on Tuesday evening.
Despite red vigilance, the damage remains limited in the north of Franche-Comté, reports France Bleu Belfort-Montbéliard
. The gusts of wind nevertheless reached 109 km/h in places in the Territoire de Belfortand more than 500 lightning strikes were recorded.