A rare tornado injured 19 people, two of them severely, in Luxembourg, while 15 soccer players were injured by a lightning strike in southern Germany as unseasonal storms hit northern Europe late Friday. The tornado in the southwestern Luxembourg communities of Pettingen and Kaerjeng left a path of destruction that made up to 100 homes…
Tornado leaves trail of destruction in German town
Berlin (CNN) A car was overturned and roofs were destroyed when a tornado struck overnight in northwest Germany in the latest spate of storms in Northern Europe. Bocholt, a town in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, witnessed extreme weather conditions early Wednesday, with wind speeds of 181 to 253 kilometers per hour (112 to…
German town hit by tornado
Over 30 homes were damaged and five people injured when a strong wind funnel ripped through the town of Roetgen in western Germany. “It blew through, short but fierce,” the local firefighters’ spokesman said on Wednesday. Eyewitness reports and videos from the scene showed a funnel cloud that German weather experts later confirmed was a…
