Severe storms: cars and roofs damaged! Hail as big as golf balls

Hannover – Centimeter-sized hailstones, storms, heavy rain! Especially in northern Germany, streets were flooded on Monday evening, cars and even house roofs were damaged. But the danger is far from over. The German Weather Service (DWD) is already warning of new severe storms.

Lower Saxony was particularly affected: According to the police, around 250 emergency calls were made in the state between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. on Monday evening alone because of the storm a. The emergency services deployed a good 600 times, it was said in the morning.

Weather chaos in Lower Saxony and East Westphalia

Large hailstones smashed car windows in the Harburg district, among other things, and made dents in the paint. Videos from Heidenau even show severely damaged roofs. A horrified resident told the dpa: “I have never experienced anything like this, such chaos.” It had to be in Celle Fire department Pump water from basements and intersections after heavy rain.

The rescuers have also recorded hundreds of missions in East Westphalia (NRW) since Monday evening. Thunderstorms with heavy rain had pushed up storm drains and flooded basements. In Bielefeld, a roof structure fire broke out after a lightning strike.

Floods in the north

State of emergency also in Schleswig-Holstein, where a storm front in the evening led to more than 150 rescue and relief operations in the Pinneberg and Steinburg districts alone. Elmshorn and Kellinghusen were particularly affected, as they literally drowned: a huge thunderstorm cell with heavy rain and hail stood over the cities. Streets were floodedemergency vehicles got stuck in underpasses and the fire department needed reinforcements from other regions.

Storm damage in printing plant

Even more violent pictures from Wittenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Within a few minutes, the streets were completely covered by a thick layer of hail – wintry landscapes Midsummer! Roadways turned into a raging river of a mixture of water and hail, and wheel loaders had to clear the icy precipitation out of the way.

Because the Wittenburg printing company also suffered storm damage, readers of some daily newspapers, including the “Schweriner Volkszeitung” and the “Norddeutsche Neuesten Nachrichten”, will probably have to wait longer for their edition, according to “Nordkurier”: First, the skylights in the printing company building were damaged by hail, then heavy rain flooded and stopped the printing press. Repairs were no longer possible that night, but the newspapers were later printed in Pinneberg (Schleswig-Holstein).

Where the weather continues to rage on Tuesday

And that Wetter stays extreme on Tuesday! While the DWD issued official warnings about heat and temperatures well over 30 degrees for the middle and south of North Rhine-Westphalia and the entire western half of Rhineland-Palatinate, there is a threat of severe weather elsewhere.

Warning levels 1 and 2 apply throughout Baden-Württemberg, with the Black Forest region being particularly at risk. Thunderstorms with heavy rain, storms and hail are expected again. The eastern half of Germany is also affected, where locally violent storms can form: things threaten to become severe, for example near Magdeburg, Erfurt, Berlin, but also in Vogtland in Saxony, as well as in Lusatia and again in eastern parts of Lower Saxony.

According to the DWD, extreme storms are possible in the southern half of Brandenburg – with larger hail and severe gusts of around 75 kilometers per hour. The weather experts also expect very heavy rain with 40 liters per square meter in one hour and sometimes even larger amounts.