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Saturday, 6 p.m.: Doomsday atmosphere in the Innviertel. With gusts of wind of more than 100 kilometers per hour, torrential rain, lightning and thunder, severe storms swept over Upper Austria from the west in the early evening. The huge thunderstorm cells formed in the humid and highly unstable air at the front of a cold front and put an abrupt end to what was probably the last major heat wave of this summer.
Fire brigades in continuous operation
Alarms were received every minute from 5:53 p.m. at the state fire brigade command. Due to flooding, storm damage and vehicle salvage, the volunteer fire brigades were in action around 6:30 p.m. in the Braunau district and a little later also in the Ried im Innkreis district and in the Vöcklabruck area. 81 missions by 53 fire brigades were counted around 6:45 p.m., and the trend is rising sharply. At around 7:15 p.m., 92 fire brigades were already involved in 137 operations.
Thousands without electricity
Storm gusts with 125 km/h were measured in Reichersberg, It was 111 km/h in Wolfsegg and 106 km/h at the Geosphere Austria measuring station in Ostermiething. In addition, there was more than 37 liters of precipitation (measured in Schärding) within a very short time. With the thunderstorm, temperatures dropped rapidly to 16 degrees.
In parts of the districts of Braunau, Ried, Vöcklabruck, Schärding, Grieskirchen and Rohrbach, there were power outages due to the thunderstorm. According to Netz OÖ, more than 20,000 Upper Austrians were affected. In the Schärding district alone, 13,000 households were without electricity.
Thunderstorm warning applies until midnight
The thunderstorms continued towards the central area, but weakened a little. The meteorologists assumed that the storm would cover the entire state by 9 p.m. at the latest. The thunderstorm warning is in effect until midnight. Also in During the night there will be some heavy rain showers and thunderstorms. The second half of the night should then be much quieter. The temperatures drop to 18 to 15 degrees.
The Sunday started cloudy in Upper Austria, but settled during the day sunny weather with loose clouds, in the southern mountains it is föhn. Rain showers and isolated thunderstorms will only appear in the west of the country in the evening, accompanied by a strong westerly wind. The early temperatures are between 15 and 18 degrees, the maximum values reach 22 to 28 degrees.
- The detailed forecast for your region: nachrichten.at/wetter
This article is continuously updated.
Source: Nachrichten
