On Tuesday it was again very humid and hot in the country during the day. But the weather situation changes, in the evening and at night there are sometimes severe storms – but the DWD gives the all-clear for the night.
The heat is followed by storms: Since Tuesday afternoon there have been isolated severe thunderstorms with hurricane gusts and hail in Baden-Württemberg. The first thunderstorm cells reached the regions around Ulm and the border area with France around Rastatt and Karlsruhe in the early evening. According to the police, there were a large number of operations due to fallen trees. Injuries or people in danger have not yet been reported there. In the meantime, the German Weather Service (DWD) has given the all-clear for Baden-Württemberg – the thunderstorms should continue to move towards Bavaria during the night.
The district of Sigmaringen warns against entering the forests
Several trees fell in the Sigmaringen district due to the storm. Entering the forests and driving in wooded areas should be avoided if possible, according to the Reutlingen fire brigade. There were also numerous power outages across the county.
At the Illmensee campsite (Sigmaringen district), two people were slightly injured by falling trees – five people had to be evacuated from the site.
Police in Reutlingen: “We’re really going around”
In the region around Reutlingen, too, the thunderstorm caused countless police and fire brigade operations. “We’re really going around,” said a police officer in Reutlingen on Tuesday evening. No deaths have been reported so far. But there were several traffic accidents with injuries due to the severe storm. “It will take a while before we have an overview,” said the police officer. Shortly before 10 p.m., the storm front also passed over Stuttgart – there were gusts of wind, heavy rain, thunder and lightning.
Lightning struck the roof of a detached house in Steinheim an der Murr (Ludwigsburg district) on Tuesday evening. The attic caught fire. The Steinheim, Marbach, Erdmannhausen, Kirchberg, Murr and Ludwigsburg fire brigades were on site with a large number of emergency services and were able to extinguish the fire around midnight. Nobody got hurt.
On Tuesday evening, numerous flashes lit up the roofs over the east of Stuttgart.
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The severe storm in southern Germany also reached the Lake Constance region late Tuesday evening, according to the DWD there were hurricane gusts and hurricane-like gusts. A police spokesman in Ravensburg said in the evening that the operational situation was not manageable because emergency calls were constantly being received. No injuries have been reported here either. Many roofs were torn off and trees were downed. A storm of the highest warning level 4 was reported in the region around 11 p.m. on the DWD warning map. There were also heavy gusts of wind in Freiburg. In some places hail fell two centimeters in diameter.
Storm front moved from France to Germany
The first foothills of the storm front coming from France moved to Baden-Württemberg on Tuesday evening – but did little damage. A police spokesman in Offenburg only reported that a few old trees had fallen in a forest near Kehl (Ortenaukreis). Therefore, cyclists should have turned around and alerted the emergency services.
In Kehl in the Ortenau district, there were already hailstorms on Tuesday evening.
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The French railways stopped traffic on some routes for safety reasons. A severe weather warning was issued for 26 departments, for five of which the warning level was red. The ceiling of a supermarket collapsed in Dijon, 30 trees were uprooted in Vichy and residents from various parts of the region shared photos of large hailstones that came down with the gusts of wind, the BFMTV channel and the newspaper Le Parisien reported.
In a second thunderstorm front from Alsace, thunderstorm cells moved to southern Baden in the early evening, around 9 p.m. one of the foothills was over the east of Freiburg and continued over the Dreisamtal towards the Black Forest. In Kehl am Rhein, the first thunderstorms started around 8:30 p.m. Heavy rain followed a little later, which was followed by a brief hailstorm shortly before nine. In the meantime the situation has calmed down.
Storms are possible in parts of Baden-Württemberg. The German weather service keeps you informed.
It’s supposed to be cooler on Wednesday
According to the forecast, temperatures will be below 30 degrees in the coming days. The weather service expects up to 29 degrees on the Rhine and 25 degrees on the Upper Rhine. In addition, showers and thunderstorms are expected in the south and south-east half of Baden-Württemberg. According to the DWD, it will be warmer again towards the weekend.
More information about the weather can be found here in the weather report from Tuesday evening:
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