Hamburg weather: “Many trees fell down”

Streets washed over, fallen trees, failed trains: Heavy thunderstorms with heavy rainfall led to numerous fire brigade operations in the north early Monday evening.

The German Weather Service (DWD) has warned of severe thunderstorms with heavy precipitation in the area from Hamburg to the Bay of Lübeck – Norderstedt and Pinneberg are particularly affected. “A lot of trees fell over there,” said a spokeswoman for the west rescue control center on Monday. Manhole covers had partially come up.

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Until late in the evening, the rescuers in the Norderstedt area recorded 85 and a further 20 weather-related missions around Pinneberg. According to a spokesman, there was no serious personal injury.

In the early evening, the thunderstorm continued towards Stormarn and Lübeck. A spokesman for the regional control center put the total number of operations in this area at 120. These included flooded basements and garages as well as fallen trees and manhole covers that had come up, but no serious injuries.

On the Hamburg-Lübeck railway line, trains were canceled due to trees that had fallen on the track. First, the section between Bargteheide and Bad Oldesloe, and later that between Bad Oldesloe and Lübeck, had to be closed.

The situation service of the Hamburg fire brigade reported in the evening of a total of 35 weather-related operations in the north-east of the city, for example “on a Langenhorn-Duvenstedt axis”. Trees fell onto the street, basements filled up. There was no major damage or injury here either.

As here in Pinneberg, very large amounts of rain fell in a very short time on Monday afternoon. hfr

The German Weather Service (DWD) has warned of severe thunderstorms with heavy precipitation in the area from Hamburg to the Bay of Lübeck. The thunderstorms were moving from Lower Saxony towards the Baltic Sea early Monday evening, as a meteorologist from the DWD said on Monday. The official warning was valid until 7 p.m., but could be extended according to the information.

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A resident reported in northern Hamburg on Monday evening about garden furniture flying around and hail. According to the DWD, gusts of wind with speeds of around 85 kilometers per hour and heavy rain with precipitation between 15 and 25 liters per square meter and hour were expected. (dpa/mp)