Capture @BikeGaga sur Twitter
In Saint-Étienne, an impressive accumulation of hail and raging thunderstorms
WEATHER – The elements were unleashed on the Loire on this Wednesday afternoon August 17. After the successive heat waves of recent weeksthe heat wave gave way to thunderstorms, in very violent places. This is particularly the case in Saint-Étienne and its surroundings, where an impressive hailstorm hit, covering the ground in places with a thick white layer.
Between gusts of wind at 130 km/h, torrents of rain and floods, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, who was on orange alert, was in turn a victim of the severe weather. Hail was reported in Saint-Étienne, La Tourette, Périgneux, Aboen, Saint-Maurice-en-Gourgois and Villars. Power cuts have been reported in La Talaudière, reports France Blue, which specifies that the Enedis teams intervened.
The Loire department is currently crossed by a stormy episode which affected more particularly the n… https://t.co/0AlOFSSCaN
– Prefect of the Loire (@Prefecture42)
159 interventions were in progress in the middle of the afternoon, and 117 firefighters were mobilized on the ground after the passage of this violent weather, announced the prefecture of the Loire in a press release, specifying that no victim was to be deplored. . Train traffic was interrupted between Saint-Étienne and Lyon, before resuming shortly after 5 p.m. It will not resume this evening, however, on the Saint-Étienne-Roanne and Saint-Étienne-Boën axes, announced the SNCF.
Flooded buildings of the CHU Nord de Saint-Étienne
On social networks, many have shared impressive videos of the stormy episode.
Nn it’s too there #franceinfo #storms #BFMTV https://t.co/cIKPSf2xKb
— adskills (@adskills2)
The rain / hail / snow in Saint-Étienne we talk about it?! https://t.co/1v4KuJkI9v
— Apollo (@apo17lline)
Good bein the @SNCF will surely have to stop traffic: the “river” flows onto the lower railway. https://t.co/b5LdwkHqy0
— BikeGaga (@BikeGaga)
Good @STAS_Officiel, it will be difficult to pass! https://t.co/qHNP0n1hSC
— BikeGaga (@BikeGaga)
The CHU Nord de Saint-Étienne was also affected. The prefecture evokes the flood of ” some buildings “, most ” not impacting care services ».
⛈ Images of the storm accompanied by hail & strong winds that hit the north of Saint-Étienne, here from the CHU.… https://t.co/a32Vmbebec
— Weather Express (@WeatherExpress)
How’s it going with vs? Need a toning massage? https://t.co/yRC5KhiG34
— BikeGaga (@BikeGaga)
The deluge in #SaintEtienne: everything we didn’t have for two months at once #thunderstorms #floods https://t.co/DSQ0Pz6FUo
— Charles Napoli (@charlesnapoli_)
⛈ THE STORM IN VIDEO! Hail, floods, tornadoes… The #Loire surprised by the weather this afternoon. You make us… https://t.co/yD7PxUD89T
— TL7 (@tl7loire)
According The Weather Channelin Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, it fell locally “ the equivalent 3 weeks of rain in the last hour “, especially in the town of Mornant.
#Storms are unleashed in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes right now. It has already fallen locally the equivalent of 3 weeks… https://t.co/2yKOQrxqkJ
— The Weather Channel (@lachainemeteo)
⛈ THE STORM IN VIDEO! Hail, floods, tornadoes… The #Loire surprised by the weather this afternoon. You make us… https://t.co/yD7PxUD89T
— TL7 (@tl7loire)
Of the “Severe storms crossed the Stéphanois then the Lyonnais”with gusts “up to 130 km/h” and of “heavy hail”, indicates the specialized media. In these regions, Météo-France predicts hailstones of “more than 3 cm”but with cumulative rains “generally less than 30 mm” due to the rapid passage of thunderstorms.
A few hours later, the storm hit the Lyon area, where flooding was observed. According to several publications on Twitter, the municipality of Feyzin was particularly affected.
⛈ The Lyonnais was hit by a violent storm. It was south of Lyon that it was the most violent with rains of… https://t.co/ZbCi5h0XuS
— Weather Express (@WeatherExpress)
#Floods in Feyzin south of Lyon where 30 mm of rain fell in a few minutes as a violent gold passed… https://t.co/jSgZwMRWJY
— The Weather Channel (@lachainemeteo)
Pas-de-Calais and part of the former Rhône-Alpes region were placed on Tuesday afternoon in orange vigilance. Ain, Isère, Rhône, Haute-Savoie and Pas-de-Calais have joined the list of departments most exposed to the risk of violent storms in the 4:00 p.m. report from Météo-France, which maintains the whole of the metropolis in yellow vigilance.
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