Severe thunderstorms are hitting the district of Ravensburg. A woman is injured – although she was in her apartment.
A woman suffered an electric shock due to a lightning strike in the district of Ravensburg. On the night of Wednesday, the 43-year-old was holding her mobile phone in her hand in Aitrach while it was connected to a socket for charging, as the police reported. She was slightly injured by the lightning strike and went to a hospital on her own. Additionally, several electrical boxes in the town were scorched by the lightning, and flash fires were reported coming from sockets in some cases.
In Vogt, another lightning struck a power pole during the night. A transformer burned out, and several households were temporarily without power during repair work. Fallen trees also caused short-term traffic disruptions in the district of Ravensburg.
Thunderstorms in Germany: Further severe weather possible
On Wednesday afternoon, the German Weather Service (DWD) issued warnings for thunderstorms in numerous regions in southern Germany, and the highest warning level purple temporarily applied in the district of Konstanz.
Diplom-Meteorologist Dominik Jung told t-online that the air was "literally charged with energy and water vapor". He further said: "When such an air mass starts to slide, it does not discharge in harmless showers, but in towering thunderstorm cells that deposit an extreme amount of water in a very small area." The weather expert also did not completely rule out brief tornadoes.
Over the course of Thursday, the weather in Germany is expected to calm down initially, before new severe weather is set to move in on Friday.
Sources used
- News agency dpa
- Own reporting
