orange alert in 16 departments storms northeastern France – Le Point

Sixteen departments are kept vigilance orange Tuesday night in severe weather that began to affect the north and move to the east of France. The departments of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie, Champagne-Ardenne, Lorraine, Côte-d’Or, Haute-Saône and the Lower Rhine “are particularly at risk of hail and important rainfall in a short time, “according to Météo-France.

in the Pas-de-Calais, a septuagenarian driver was surprised by the rising waters and drowned while driving in a village street Mondicourt near Arras, said the prefecture. Hundreds of vehicles remained stranded on the RN25 to 19 hours. According to the prefecture, seven areas of the department are involved in a rapidly rising waters, especially around Lens and Bethune. Diversions or traffic on a road had to be in place at least four roads or highways. Relief intervened over 260 times in the department, added the State services.

In the north, firefighters were also heavily used, especially around Villeneuve d’Ascq Douai and La Bassée. In the latter town of nearly 7000 inhabitants, a helicopter of the gendarmerie had to intervene to evacuate people. In Lille, the train traffic was completely stopped in Lille Europe station, due to “disjunction” but traffic resumed around 19 hours depending on the train. In Lille Flandres station, light delays for departures to Paris have also been reported. The tram was also blocked in Lille, but traffic resumed after 19 hours.

A hospital hit

In the late afternoon, it is the Oise who was in the eye of the storm, with 419 interventions half past one in the Beauvais area, mainly for lightning strikes and flooded basements, said firefighters. The hospital of Beauvais was hit and a few centimeters of water infiltrated in particular “in the corridors of the emergency waiting room” but “continuity of care has been ensured,” said the institution. “He fell locally in the order of 50 to 80 mm in a few hours,” said Meteo France.

In sum, interventions were also held in basements and flooded cellars around Abbeville. Since the late morning, the Gold Coast, the Vosges and the south of the Haute-Marne were also affected by storms resulting in strong accumulations in places, according to Météo-France.

A hailstorm in Strasbourg

in the East, the Moselle “begins to be affected to Sarreguemines and Forbach,” indicated late afternoon firefighters, who performed “some small interventions, including a house fire early due to lightning. ” The alert must be lifted at 6 am Wednesday. In Meurthe-et-Moselle, “it happens on the southern department” and thirty interventions took place since the beginning of the afternoon.

The thunderstorm activity should spread and continue into next night beginning on much of the northeast of the country, said Meteo France, which highlights the many expected lightning impacts particularly on the Hauts-de-France, the Ardennes and Champagne to Burgundy and Franche-Comté.

A violent hailstorm beat down in the late afternoon on Strasbourg. Furthermore, vigilance is maintained orange flood on the Essonne departments for the middle Seine, Eure and Seine-Maritime for the Seine downstream section. With the arrival of the night, thunderstorm activity is expected to continue even in the evening, but mainly on the northern departments of the country. Elsewhere, thunderstorms will lose activity at the beginning of night, said Meteo France.