Weather – Offenbach am Main – Storm damage in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland so far low – Panorama

Mainz/Offenbach (dpa/lrs) – Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland have survived the storms of the past few days comparatively well – according to previous knowledge, hurricane low “Zeynep” did not cause any major damage. However, the German Weather Service (DWD) warned of new storms on Sunday: In both countries, hurricane-force gusts can occur on Monday night from a height of 600 meters. Again, be careful of uprooted trees and falling branches or roof tiles. According to the DWD, stormy gusts can be expected in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland until Wednesday. In addition, the water levels rise significantly due to the heavy rain at the gauges in the Saar catchment area on Sunday and Monday, as announced by the State Office for Environmental Protection in Saarland. Locally limited traffic obstructions and isolated flooding of buildings could be the result.

Wind speeds of up to 139 kilometers per hour were measured in the wine region near Neustadt an der Weinstraße on Saturday. At Dörrmoschel in the North Palatinate, the DWD registered a gust at a speed of 109 kilometers per hour. From 118 kilometers per hour, meteorologists speak of a hurricane gust.

The fire brigade of the state capital Mainz reported around 60 operations due to the storm on Saturday. In most cases, however, it remained with fallen branches and parts of the roof or broken trees. “Compared to the areas in northern Germany, Rheinhessen got off very lightly,” said a fire department spokesman. A spokesman for the service area of ​​​​the police headquarters in Trier said that “a lot of trees” had fallen. This also applied to numerous operations on Friday and Saturday in the Neuwied district and in the Palatinate, as the police departments reported. According to the police in Kaiserslautern, the storm damaged a corona test station in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse on Friday evening.

According to the police in Frankenthal, a car was damaged by a fallen tree on a federal road in the north-east of the Palatinate. A brick fell on a parked vehicle in Kusel. In the district of Ahrweiler, a tractor driver and his passenger were slightly injured on the federal highway 267 near Dernau when an initially unknown object hit the windscreen due to gusts of wind. The disc splintered and the 72-year-old man and the 37-year-old woman were slightly injured by the flying splinters, as the Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler police station announced on Friday. In the Eifel near Daun, a tree fell on a man’s car; According to the police in Trier, the 57-year-old driver was unharmed.

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