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Many injured after the tornado in Paderborn: Kachelmann with a grim warning for Germany

2022-05-23T08:17:35.389Z


Many injured after the tornado in Paderborn: Kachelmann with a grim warning for Germany Created: 2022-05-23Updated: 2022-05-23 10:04 AM By: Markus Hofstetter Tornadoes only have a warning time of a few minutes. According to Jörg Kachelmann, warning mechanisms like those in the USA should be established in Germany in order to prevent deaths. Paderborn - The tornado that cut a path of destructio


Many injured after the tornado in Paderborn: Kachelmann with a grim warning for Germany

Created: 2022-05-23Updated: 2022-05-23 10:04 AM

By: Markus Hofstetter

Tornadoes only have a warning time of a few minutes.

According to Jörg Kachelmann, warning mechanisms like those in the USA should be established in Germany in order to prevent deaths.

Paderborn - The tornado that cut a path of destruction through Paderborn on Friday (May 20) shows that Germany is not immune to such weather phenomena.

But according to Jörg Kachelmann, the country is not prepared for this.

"The Paderborn tornado wasn't even particularly strong, but the number of victims is incredibly high.

That shows: Germany is not prepared," said the weather expert in an interview with

Spiegel.de

.

Kachelmann said there were explicit warnings before the tornado, but these were lost in the general news flow.

He cites the USA as a role model, where the awareness is completely different.

"People would constantly look up at the sky just to save their lives."

Weather expert Kachelmann on tornadoes: Warning mechanisms should be established in Germany

The problem with tornadoes in particular is that their formation cannot be precisely predicted.

"On Friday afternoon, just under half an hour before the tornado passed through Paderborn, a strongly rotating storm cloud was seen in the region - moving in the direction of Paderborn," says Kachelmann.

From then on the clock is ticking, the usual warning time of 15 to 30 minutes is enough to save his life.

Jörg Kachelmann sees Germany poorly prepared for tornadoes (archive photo) © Sebastian Willnow/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/Archivbild

In the USA, according to Kachelmann, the sirens would have been activated in the affected areas and live streams would have been switched to all media at the same time.

"We have to establish that in Germany as well, otherwise it will be very dangerous."

Weather expert Kachelmann on tornadoes: Better preparations to prevent many deaths

Kachelmann also says that the probability of seeing a tornado in Germany is low.

If someone like that went through Hamburg or Berlin, there would be maybe a thousand deaths.

That shouldn't happen, which is why you have to prepare better.

According to the city, 43 people were injured by the tornado that passed through Paderborn on Friday, 13 of them seriously.

According to the German Weather Service (DWD), there were also tornadoes in Lippstadt in East Westphalia and Lütmarsen near Höxter in the Weserbergland.

Source: merkur

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