Everything happens very quickly and the damage is considerable: a hurricane kinks trees and damages buildings in Schwentinental near Kiel.
The German Weather Service checks whether it is a tornado.
Schwentinental / Kiel - The hurricane arrives early in the morning and causes considerable damage in a short time: In Schwentinental (Plön district) several houses were damaged, garden sheds and greenhouses destroyed, trees fell and cars battered on Thursday.
Fire department chief Kai Lässig reported that he had seen the trunk of the cyclone himself.
Whether the German Weather Service (DWD) classifies the storm as a tornado will be checked when reports are received, said a spokesman.
According to Lässig, the storm left a swath about 100 meters wide in the village.
There were no injuries.
The police in Kiel spoke of 35 missions.
According to Lässig, several houses were badly damaged.
Trees fell and cars were buried under them.
The storm also knocked down several trees in one field.
The whirlwind was said to have passed through the town from the direction of Kiel at around 7:30 a.m.
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Residents noticed flames in the night and alerted the fire brigades and the police, as a police spokesman said.
There were three residents in the house at the time of the fire.
The 64-year-old grandfather, his 61-year-old wife and a 15-year-old grandson were unharmed and were able to leave the large building in good time.
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Damage also occurred in other parts of Schleswig-Holstein.
In the morning, an AKN train drove between the Neumünster and Neumünster-Süd stations in sheet metal that had been torn off a roof and blown onto the tracks.
According to a company spokeswoman, around 120 passengers had to leave the train on the open route.
For several hours buses drove in the section as a replacement.
Nobody got hurt.
In Lübeck and northern Ostholstein, the police counted 14 missions, for example because of fallen construction fences and trees.
There was a storm-related accident on federal highway 432 in Ahrensbök: There a falling tree hit a pickup truck in such a way that the windshield broke and the roof rack was torn off.
The driver was unharmed.
The police closed the street completely for the clean-up work.
According to the DWD, Schleswig-Holstein was one of the federal states with the lowest wind speeds in Germany in the morning.
The strongest gust was measured in Travemünde at 89 kilometers per hour.
dpa
