After the storm on Tuesday night, there was again heavy rain. Numerous streets were flooded and one person died from a fallen tree.
Heavy storms with heavy rain and squalls also passed over Baden-Württemberg on Tuesday afternoon. In numerous regions, the fire brigade had to move out again and pump empty basements that were full. The storm hit the Lake Constance district, the Freiburg region and the greater Stuttgart area hardest. There were numerous train failures.
At the Stuttgart Opera they are still busy cleaning up from the night when another storm hit the city.
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A fatality in the Lake Constance district
The storm also hit the Bodensee-Oberschwaben region in the afternoon. On a county road at Oberteuringen (Bodenseekreis) a tree toppled onto a car during the storm. According to the police, the 23-year-old driver of the car died at the scene of the accident. In Meersburg (Lake Constance district) A construction crane about 25 meters high overturned and damaged four houses. Two people had to be brought out of a residential building to safety. Nobody got hurt. The amount of property damage is still unclear. In addition, some reports of flooded roads were received, for example from Hilzingen. Also in Stockach (both in the Constance district) water was briefly pressed out of manhole covers and flooded streets.
In Meersburg (Lake Constance district) an approximately 25 meter high construction crane overturned in the storm and damaged several houses. Nobody got hurt.
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Renewed use of the fire brigade in downtown Stuttgart
The spokesman for the Stuttgart fire brigade told the SWR that there were around 80 missions in the afternoon that had been “prioritized”. According to this, some buildings were protected from the outside with sandbags so that the pumped water does not penetrate directly back into the building. At the Klett passage at the main train station, there was a major operation due to flooding, as well as at various street underpasses. In the evening there were traffic jams on the streets. The opera house also fell victim to the rain again. The roof had already been damaged by the storm that night. Now “water has penetrated the house again because the roof is only temporarily covered,” said the managing director of the Stuttgart State Theater, Marc-Oliver Hendriks, on Tuesday evening. Game operations can resume on Saturday at the earliest.
Although the rail traffic had largely been stopped, the way to the main train station was already difficult because of the flooded streets.
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Flooded cellar in Freiburg
Also in Freiburg Heavy rain at noon caused the fire brigade to be deployed again. Cellars that had filled up had to be pumped dry, and clogged drains from streams had to be cleaned. In Au and Merzhausen (both Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald) the local passages were flooded by water and were difficult to drive. In the county Loerrach Fallen trees blocked roads and had to be cleared. On the A81 between Villingen-Schwenningen and Tuning (both Schwarzwald-Baar district) warned the police of a flooded roadway, heavy rain and aquaplaning.
The thunderstorms also caused failures in rail traffic. On Lake Constance, according to information from Deutsche Bahn, the routes between Constancy and Radolfzell and between Salem and Friedrichshafen (Lake Constance district) temporarily blocked. Also between Bad Saulgau (Sigmaringen district) and Aulendorf (Ravensburg district) as well as in the Black Forest on the route between the Freiburg Central Station and Kirchzarten the traffic came to a standstill due to the storm. The light rail line S4 between Weinberg (Heilbronn district) and Öhringen-Cappel (Hohenlohekreis) was interrupted due to broken branches.
In and around Stuttgart there were also restrictions in rail traffic. So was the route between Boeblingen and Sindelfingen (Böblingen district) initially closed due to a tree in the track. In the area around Waiblingen, Schorndorf and Backnang (all Rems-Murr-Kreis) there were delays and cancellations due to heavy rain.
The German weather service had warned of a severe thunderstorm on Tuesday
The German Weather Service (DWD) had for large parts of Baden-Württemberg for the afternoon warned of severe thunderstorms. The experts expected heavy rain with up to 40 liters per square meter and gusts of up to 85 kilometers per hour. Hail with a diameter of up to two centimeters is also possible. The storms could also be stronger locally, it said. According to a DWD spokesman, the thunderstorms should weaken towards evening. In the past few days, several severe thunderstorms had hit Baden-Württemberg and left numerous damage in large parts of the state.