WeatherFanatics: Deadly Storms Hit Germany, Threat Continues Into Wednesday

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Deadly Storms Hit Germany, Threat Continues Into Wednesday

By Eric Leister, Meteorologist

June 10,2014; 9:04PM,EDT

The blazing heat building across central Europe is setting the stage for a severe weather event that will last through Wednesday.
A cold front slicing into what is proving to be the hottest air mass so far this year is putting areas from eastern France to western Poland and northern Italy at risk for violent thunderstorms.
Thunderstorms, some severe, developed across western and northern France before spreading into Belgium, Netherlands and northwestern Germany on Monday.
The strongest thunderstorms produced damaging winds, hail and blinding downpours. According to the Associated Press at least six people were killed during the storms on Monday, including three who were seeking shelter in a building when a tree fell onto it. Firefighters rescued six others from the damaged building.

Branches of trees cover parked cars in a street in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany, Tuesday June 10, 2014. (AP Photo/dpa, Caroline Seidel)
The severe weather danger shifted east from Denmark into Germany, Switzerland and eastern France through Tuesday evening. This would put Copenhagen, Denmark, Hamburg and Frankfurt, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland, at risk.
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Tuesday's severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and downpours are expected to be more numerous across Denmark and northern Germany and more localized in nature elsewhere.
Regardless of the coverage area, it takes only one severe thunderstorm to cause damage to a home or community. Residents are also urged to remember to move indoors as soon as thunder is heard; you are then close enough to be struck by lightning.
On Wednesday, the corridor from eastern Germany and western Poland to northern Italy and southeastern France may become the target of a few severe thunderstorms.

Setting the stage for the impending severe weather is the heat that will bring the highest temperatures so far this year across most of central Europe.
Temperatures on Tuesday soared into the lower 30s C (86-92 F) from southern Germany into the Czech Republic and southern Poland.
Following the stormy weather, more seasonable temperatures are expected to return for the second half of the week.
Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski contributed to this story.

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