BERLIN—A storm that swept across parts of Germany generated three tornadoes, the country’s weather service said Saturday. One of them left a trail of destruction and more than 40 people injured in a western city.
Meteorologists had warned of heavy rainfall, hail and strong gusts of wind in western and central Germany on Friday, and people in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia were advised to stay home. Storms on Thursday had already disrupted traffic, uprooted trees that toppled onto rail tracks and roads, and flooded hundreds of basements in western Germany.
A snapped-off tree trunk from severe weather in front of a house facade in Lippstadt, Germany, on May 20, 2022. (Friso Gentsch/dpa via AP)
The German Weather Service confirmed three tornadoes in North Rhine-Westphalia—in Paderborn, in nearby Lippstadt, and on the edge of the town of Hoexter, news agency dpa reported….