Devastating hailstorm in Italy, Germany and Belgium on 27th May 2018

ITALY
LOMBARDY
Selvino and Albino (province of Bergamo), dense hail, beans up to 2 cm on Albino, between 2 and 3 cm on Selvino.

GERMANY
Ilmenau (Thuringia), strong hailstorm with abundant accumulation on the ground, grains maximum size almost 3 cm.
Bad Gandersheim (Lower Saxony), dense hail with grains up to 2-3 cm.Northeim (Lower Saxony), hailstorm with grains up to 2 cm.
Grone (western outskirts of Göttingen, Lower Saxony), hailstorm with grains up to about 2 cm.
Dahlhausen, Bochum, Bottrop, Wattenscheid, Weitmar (North Rhine-Westphalia), dense hail with beans of about 2 cm. On Dahlhausen abundant accumulation on the ground with possible larger grains.
Angerweg, Heiligenhaus (district of Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia) for integrating with abundant accumulation on the ground, grains of at least 2 cm, larger possible.
Between Vlotho and Bad Oeynhausen (Detmold district, North Rhine-Westphalia), hailstorm with beans up to 2 cm. Hit A2 motorway.
Büren (Detmold district, North Rhine-Westphalia), hailstorm with grains not exceeding 2 cm.
Kaiserslautern (Rhineland-Palatinate), dense hail, grains up to at least 2 cm, possible a little larger.
Bruchweiler and surroundings (Rhineland-Palatinate), strong hailstorm, beans up to 3 cm.
Darscheid (Rhineland-Palatinate), on highway near Darscheid, dense hail, beans up to at least 2 cm, larger possible. Nearby also hail on Schalkenmehren and Daun.
Elmstein (Rhineland-Palatinate), strong hailstorm with grains up to 3 cm.
Bausendorf (Rhineland-Palatinate), dense hail, beans up to 2 cm.
Veitsrodt (Rhineland-Palatinate), hailstorm with grains up to about 2 cm.
Hauenstein (Rhineland-Palatinate), hailstorm with grains up to 2 cm.
Röbel (Mecklenburg-Pomerania), dense hail, beans up to 2 cm.
Agenbach (District of Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurrtemberg), dense and abundant hailstorm, beans maximum size 2 cm.
Schönheide (Saxony), hailstorm with grains of about 2 cm, possible grains a little larger.
Tittling (district of Passau, Lower Bavaria), violent hailstorm with abundant accumulation on the ground and grains up to 3 cm.
Kirchheim and Bebra (district of Kassel, Hesse), dense hailstones with grains up to over 2 cm.
Hilders (district of Kassel, Hesse), dense hail with beans up to 2 cm.
Obbornhofen (district of Gießen, Hesse), intense hailstorm with abundant accumulation on the ground, up to 20 cm. The possibility of bigger beans of 2 cm is not excluded. Hail also on Bellersheim and more generally in the sector between Wohnbach and Hungen. Hailstorms have occurred in the surroundings of Idar-Oberstein (Rhineland-Palatinate), however mixed with a lot of rain. The damage in this area is mainly due to rainfall, but locally we do not exclude hail damage.
Hetzerode, Mäckelsdorf, Waldkappel (district of Kassel, Hesse), violent hailstorms, abundant accumulation on the ground, grains on average 2 cm, but maximum size 3-4 cm
Bad Hersfeld (district of Kassel, Hessen), dense hail, beans up to 2 cm.
Trautenstein and Schierke (Saxony-Anhalt), dense hailstorms, grains up to 2 cm.
Alkofen (Lower Bavaria), dense hailstorm, beans up to 2 cm.
We confirm strong hailstorms in the area of ​​Röbel, Priborn, Solzow and Buchholz (Mecklenburg-Pomerania), with grains over 2 cm, up to 3 cm.

CZECH REPUBLIC
Přebuz (Karlovy Vary region), violent hailstorm with grains maximum size between 3 and 4 cm.

HUNGARY
Békéscsaba (Békés province), strong hailstorm with grains up to almost 3 cm.

UKRAINE
Mukacheve (region of the Transcarpathia), dense hailstorm, beans up to 2 cm.

RUSSIA
Tsalyk (North Ossetia-Alania), strong hailstorm with grains up to 5 cm and damage. Other hailstorms around but with smaller grains.
Alexandrovskoye (Stavropol Territory), hailstorm with grains up to 2.5 cm.
Krylovo (Kaliningrad region), hailstorm with grains up to 2 cm.

BELGIUM
Ostend, strong hailstorm, beans up to 3 cm.
We confirm strong hailstorms in Ostend and surroundings with beans up to 3 cm, and along the motorway between Ostend and Bruges with grains up to about 3 cm in the area of ​​Jebbeke
Zedelgem (West Flanders), hailstorm with beans up to 2 cm.Lanaken (Limburg), strong hailstorm with grains up to 2 cm. Not excluded possibility of beans a bit ‘bigger.
Nimy (area north of Mons, Hainaut), strong hailstorm, beans up to 3 cm. Other hailstorms around Mons, Jurbise, Ecaussinnes, Soignes, Binche with beans up to about 2 cm.
Oreye (province of Liège), hailstorm with grains that may have reached 2 cm.

NETHERLANDS
Maastricht (Limburg), dense hail with beans up to 2 cm.
Drouwen and Borger (Drenthe), dense hail with beans up to about 2 cm.
Hailstones with grains up to 2 cm have affected the area between Kruiningen and Kapelle (Zeeland), hit the A58 motorway.

GREAT BRITAIN
Daventry (Northamptonshire), strong hailstorm with grains up to 3 cm.
Hailstones with beans up to 2 cm have affected some areas of the north hinterland of London.

SPAIN
Ayora (Valencia), strong hailstorm, beans up to 3 cm.
Talayuelas (Cuenca), dense hailstorm, beans not over 2 cm.
On the A3 motorway between Motilla del Palancar and Graja de Iniesta (Cuenca), hailstorms, however, we have no news of beans equal to or greater than 2 cm.
Balazote (Albacete), dense hail however with grains under 2 cm.
Granada, dense hail, beans less than 2 cm.
Astorga (Leon), dense hail but with grains less than 2 cm.

FRANCE
Scheibenhard (Bas-Rhin), strong hailstorm with grains maximum size almost 3 cm.
Essoyes, Viviers-sur-Artaut (Aube), strong hailstorm with accumulation on the ground, grains up to at least 2 cm.
We confirm violent hailstorm on Essoyes (Aube) but we rectify maximum size, grains up to 4 / 4.5 cm and damage.
Lauterbourg and Scheibenhard (Bas-Rhin), we confirm strong hailings with grains up to almost 3 cm.
Berlaimont (North), dense hail with beans up to 2 cm.

POLAND
Brusy (Pomeranian), we confirm strong hailstorm, but we rectify grain size, not 2 cm but maximum size between 3 and 4 cm.
Trzeciewiec (Cuiavia-Pomerania), strong hailstorm with beans up to 4 cm.
Sarbsk (Pomeranian), dense hailstorm, beans up to 2 cm.
Obrazów (Santacroce), dense hailstorm, beans not over 2 cm.

AUSTRIA
Spittal an der Drau (Carinthia), reported some backhand of hail with beans of 1-2 cm.

SLOVENIA
Ljubljana, reported hail showers in the Jože Pučnik airport area. Beans up to 2 cm in diameter.
Celje, hail showers with beans of 1-2 cm.
Britof (near Kranj), violent hailstones beans of 1-2 cm.
Šenčur (northern Slovenia), abundant hailstorm with accumulation on the ground. The presence of beans over 2 cm is not excluded.

TURKEY
Demirtaş, İsmetiye, Avdancık, Karabalçık, Selçukgazi (Province of Bursa), marked violent hailstorms with deposit on the ground and grains up to 2 cm in diameter. The presence of superior grains is not excluded.
Karaköy, Seydiköy, Derici, Kargın, Yaraşlı, Ataköy (Province of Manisa), marked violent hailstorms with deposit on the ground and grains up to 2 cm in diameter. The presence of superior grains is not excluded.
Çankırı, violent hailstorm reported beans up to 2 cm but do not rule out the presence of superior grains.
Bahçelievler and Azdavay (Province of Kastamonu), very heavy hail with ground deposit of more than 20 cm. The presence of beans over 2 cm is not excluded.