Tornadoes, hail, floods and huge damage: VIDEO Europe faces extreme storms: Warning for Slovakia – Topky.sk

For several weeks now, the summer weather in Slovakia has been extremely pleasant, with air temperatures rising to 30 degrees Celsius. This attracts many people to the water, but it also brings with it another problem – and that is intense storms that form from the heat. In recent weeks, they have plagued not only Slovakia but also the whole of Europe and are causing extensive damage. Let’s remember the worst of them. Archive VIDEO Croatia fights floods after severe storms On Friday, May 20, extremely strong storms hit Germany, which brought with them at least two tornadoes. At least one person lost their lives and dozens were injured in a severe storm and multiple tornadoes. The authorities also report damages worth millions of euros. A 38-year-old man who lost his head in a flooded cellar lost his life in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, writes Der Tagesspiegel. Photo gallery (8) A tornado probably swept through the West German city of Lippstadt
Source: SITA / Friso Gentsch / dpa via AP Police in Paderborn in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia reported 43 injured. The condition of ten of them was serious. A strong wind tore down the roofs of several buildings, uprooted the trees and caused outages in the city’s public transport. According to the DPA, the damage is estimated at millions of euros. The storm also caused damage in the town of Lippstadt, which is located about 35 kilometers west of Paderborn. However, the injured people have not reported from there yet. In Bavaria, 14 people – mostly children – suffered injuries after a heavy wind collapsed in a wooden hut in the Mittelfranken district. Tourists have resorted to it to hide from bad weather, writes the DPA, referring to a police spokeswoman. Photo gallery (8) A tornado probably swept through the West German city of Lippstadt
Source: SITA / Friso Gentsch / dpa via AP Overflowing Bavaria Bavaria and especially northern Austria had another strong storm over the weekend. It brought with it intense downpours and hail. Many hailstones were as large as 7 centimeters, or left a continuous layer of ice. For example, the hailstorms in the district of Lindau fell in places so densely that the landscape looked snow-covered and masses of ice had to be washed away. In many places in Germany, storms caused damage when roof tiles fell, water flooded cellars or some buildings were struck by lightning. The photos taken after the storm are literally breathtaking. The severe storms also plagued the alpine regions of Switzerland and Austria. Local floods have occurred and uprooted trees have complicated traffic on the Austrian North-South Tauern Motorway (A10), for example, the DPA agency reported. Austrian firefighters reported hundreds of exits. The wind tore down the roofs and the water flooded the roads and cellars. As far as 30,000 households are in Upper Austria. Adverse weather in Switzerland and Belgium While no injuries were reported from Austria, three people in the canton of Valais were injured in Switzerland during the storm. Two of them were hit by a flying tent, the regional police said. Winds of more than 130 kilometers per hour, hail and heavy rains in Switzerland also destroyed buildings. The storms also broke out in Belgium, where the streets turned into rivers. The southern parts of Wallonia, but also the provinces of Flemish Brabant and Limburg, were particularly affected. Gorges and sewers could no longer hold back the bodies of water. Dozens of houses remained damaged and, in addition, without electricity, the imeteo.sk portal informed Hails as big as tennis balls. She also brought with her hail the size of a tennis ball. Hailstones the size of about 8 centimeters did extensive damage – they smashed the windshields of cars, tore down roofs. A similarly severe storm hit France on Monday. As a result of heavy storms and hail that swept through France on Saturday, one person died and 14 people were injured. Thousands of households were left without electricity due to bad weather on Sunday, and Paris airports had to temporarily cut back on Saturday. In Paris, lightning struck the Eiffel Tower and a lightning strike broke out a fire on the roofs of buildings in the east of the metropolis. Residents of the French south have again posted videos on social media that capture heavy hail and hail the size of tennis balls. French drivers, in turn, shared videos of flooded roads and the daytime sky, which turned black due to storm clouds. Paris-Orly Airport temporarily suspended its operations on Saturday and many flights were delayed at the main Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris due to bad weather. In the city of Rouen in Normandy, the body of a woman who apparently died as a result of the floods was found under the car, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. However, the exact circumstances of her death are not yet known. Problems in Hungary A strong storm hit Hungary at the end of May. After the storms, which were accompanied by strong winds and hailstorms in Hungary on Wednesday, May 25, firefighters had to intervene in as many as 238 cases, while in the Šomod County they removed the consequences on Thursday. The wind uprooted the trees and broke their branches, which they grabbed on roads, fences or houses. According to the Hungarian National Civil Protection Agency (OKF), 126 buildings were damaged across the country. As many as 82 of them are located in Šomodská župa, especially in the town of Kaposvár and its surroundings, where firefighters removed the consequences of the storms even on Thursday, in almost a hundred places. Photo gallery (8) Source: FB / idokep.hu The damage was also caused by lightning. In the town of Kiskunmajsa in the Bács-Kiskun county, lightning struck the chimney of the house, where a fire broke out. In the village of Földeák in the south-east of Hungary, lightning struck a tree near the house, which damaged the roof of the house. In Kaposvár, lightning hit a tree again, which subsequently turned upside down and broke the power line. Photo gallery (8) Source: FB / idokep.hu Even our western neighbors and the popular holiday destination Strong Storms have overrun the Czech Republic in recent days. What’s more, a strong supercellular storm aimed directly at the region, which was plagued by another F4 tornado last year. The massive supercelle also brought with it hailstones the size of 5 centimeters or torrential rain. Supercela in South Moravia more precisely a photo with a view of Palava This storm is advancing on the Břeclav region! Hailstorms of 3 cm and torrential rain are reported! Photo taken from Kyjovska Posted by Weather online Moravia on Saturday, June 4, 2022 Massive hailstorms destroyed everything that came their way in Croatia. In the area around Slovenia and northern Croatia, very strong storms formed late on Thursday, June 2. But that was not all, some grew to a severe hailstorm. Some hail has reached its largest size in recent times, averaging 6 cm! These fell over the area of ​​Celje, which is the third largest Slovenian city in the east of the country. However, hail did not bypass Croatia, namely the cities of Oroslavje and Klanjec. However, Kumrovec and Zagorská sela were also very significantly affected, where this phenomenon caused great damage, especially to fields and crops or vineyards. “The corn fields were totally destroyed, everything was white, as if it were snowing. The hailstorm was the size of a hazelnut to a walnut, as where, but the number of hailstones that fell was huge,” said the desperate mayor of the Croatian village of Zagorska Sela. There were also strong storms with intense downpours, floods and hailstorms in Slovakia at the beginning of May. Meteorologists said, adding that this severe storm caused hail to fall in Stupava, and many farmers complained that they had after the harvest. In many places, they created a continuous cover, and there was water on the road and firefighters were busy. Nitrianske Pravno. “On May 7, 2022 at 5:00 pm, our unit was sent for technical intervention through the fire brigade in Trenčín – a local flood in the village of Nitrianske Pravno. Nitrianskeho Pravna. According to them, firefighters from Prievidza also helped with the intervention, using floating pumps, sludge gasoline and electric pumps to drain the flooded streets. However, storms should pass through Slovakia in the coming hours. Meteorologists issued first-level warnings for the west of Slovakia, from 5 pm to midnight, while on Wednesday the warnings will be extended to almost the whole of Slovakia by 8 pm. Photo gallery (8) Source: SHMÚ Photo gallery (8) Source: SHMÚ According to the imeteo.sk portal, intense storms are threatening in Slovakia, which could occur every day of the current working week. The situation should calm down over the weekend. The most intense storms should be in Záhorie and the extreme west, where the storm coming from Austria will come.