Highest DWD warning level: violent storms on Saturday - super cells threaten - local tornadoes possible

Weather experts expect heavy weather in Germany for Saturday. Thunderstorm super cells and local tornadoes are possible. There are new DWD warnings.

• The weather * on Saturday can get extreme in Germany. 

• Weather experts expect severe storms *. 
• Even local tornadoes * are possible. 

Update June 13, 2020: As announced, things are really starting to get going! There are currently several warnings of the highest level from the German Weather Service! They particularly affect the Baltic Sea region around Schwerin. The DWD is expecting heavy thunderstorms with "extremely heavy heavy rain and hail" in these minutes. It can also get rough around Lübeck. 

Further regions with extreme weather warnings from the DWD can be found in Brandenburg, east of Berlin. There are also official severe weather warnings here. There is currently another cell between Salzgitter and Göttingen.

Severe weather on Saturday: German Weather Service warns of gusts of wind, heavy rain and heavy thunderstorms

Munich - The weather this Saturday can be violent *! Something is brewing about Germany. The German Weather Service warns that storm-like thunderstorms can discharge in the warm, humid air from Saturday afternoon . 

According to the DWD , heavy thunderstorms and heavy rain with quantities of 25 to 40 liters per square meter can be expected in one hour in large parts of the country. The DWD continues: There are also local gusts of up to 100 km / h and hail with grain sizes of around 3 cm. If several thunderstorms grow together, heavy rain with quantities of around 50 l / sqm is also unlikely for several hours. Currently, this warning particularly refers to the broad center of Germany: Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia and Hesse, but also Franconia could be particularly hard hit, as could parts of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia. Only the southwest of the country could get away more easily. 

Storm hazard in Germany: Super cells and local tornadoes are possible on Saturday

The forecast by meteorologist Bernd Madlener from wetter.com sounds similarly bleak. He explains why things get so hot in Germany: A warm, humid eastern current meets the cooler air from the Atlantic. "The air has to go up, big storm clouds form," said Madlener. 

Saturday starts quietly, but from noon to afternoon there will be “more and more powerful thunderstorms”. He sees the danger most in a middle of Germany up to north and south. Rotating  thunderstorm supercells could also arise - with extreme rainfall, so that cellars could also run full or storm surges could form. But that's not all:  "Maybe there is a single tornado somewhere," says Madlener. He thinks the probability is low, if a tornado should form, then probably in the north of Germany. 

Weather expert Dominik Jung from the Q.met weather service also warns of local tornadoes in Germany, as does expert Thomas Sävert from unwetteragentur.de. The picture said Sävert: “On Saturday there can be thunderstorms that can be violent, sometimes with heavy rain, hail and local storms. The risk of tornado increases with the thunderstorms. ”

+++ Severe weather on the weekend ⚡❗ +++
From tomorrow at the latest, things really get down to business with the weather. Flooded cellars and flooded streets threaten as well as hail and storm.

How the thunderstorms move: https://t.co/tEyP3Q495a#Wetter #Unwetter #Gewitter #Samstag #Wochenende pic.twitter.com/VxAMVKGSQP

Weather in Germany: weather forecast also for Sunday

And the outlook for Sunday isn't much better. Meteorologist Udo Braun from wetter.net predicts new thunderstorms: “A band of clouds lies between the northwest and the center with storms and thunderstorms with storms and hail. In the south, showers and thunderstorms are a little less numerous. ”

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network

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