The alert was lifted on Wednesday morning by Météo-France in the six departments of the center-east who remained in orange alert for the storms, which caused some local damage.
According to the latest forecast, Ain, Isere, Loire, Haute-Loire, Lozere and the Rhone are no longer under surveillance after heavy rains since Tuesday afternoon. The alert had already been raised previously for Aveyron, Cantal, Puy-de-Dôme, Tarn-et-Garonne, Lot, Doubs, Jura, Saône-et-Loire, Haute-Savoie Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Vosges, Territoire-de-Belfort and Haute-Saone.
Floods of buildings and roads
By mid-morning, rains remained locally sustained in these areas, sometimes accompanied by hail, but thunderstorms are less violent. These rains caused local floods of buildings and roads, without causing injuries.
In the Loire, firefighters intervened 220 times Tuesday at the end of the day then in the night, especially in the Forez around Montbrison and in the valley of the Ondaine between Firminy and Saint-Etienne. In Haute-Loire, firefighters carried out around 130 weather-related interventions, mainly for ground-level pumping in the north-east of the department, such as Pont-Salomon, where the Semène River and tributary streams have overflowed.
Slurries and rock falls cut the railway between Monistrol-sur-Loire and Aurec-sur-Loire, interrupting for several days the circulation of TER on the Saint-Etienne / Le Puy-en-Velay line, as well as than a ramp to access the national 88.
The rain fell abundantly also on the metropolis of Lyon but the firefighters intervened only about twenty times for minor floods.