The German Weather Service has warned of severe thunderstorms from the North Sea to Saxony and Eastern Bavaria on Saturday.

Parts of the federal states of Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxony, Hesse, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt are affected, as the meteorologists in Offenbach announced.

There was a risk of local lightning damage, flooding of cellars and streets as well as hail damage to buildings, cars and fields.

Already on Friday evening and on Saturday night, storms had led to floods and accidents in parts of Germany: In Stuttgart, heavy rain tore down a scaffold on a tunnel construction site, killing a worker.

Rescue workers were able to save another worker who had been carried away from the nearby Neckar.

The man was taken to a hospital, as were two other people who probably wanted to come to his aid.

In Düsseldorf, a child fell on his bike after a lightning strike and was hit by a car.

The twelve-year-old girl was critically injured, as a fire department spokesman announced.

In the Hochtaunus district in Hesse, heavy rains led to numerous fire services.

Especially in the Neu-Anspach area, streets were flooded and basements filled up, said a spokesman for the fire department control center of the Hochtaunus district in the evening.

The places Schmitten, Wehrheim and Usingen were also affected.

About 80 percent of the 65 or so missions would have been in the Neu-Anspach area.

Around 120 firefighters were in action.

There were also severe storms in Rhineland-Palatinate.

In Bad Sobernheim, the local vaccination center was affected because there was a partial power failure after it rained.

According to a fire department spokesman, the vaccinations against the corona virus could be continued.

At no point was the cooling of the vaccines endangered.

In Kamp-Bornhofen there were full cellars, fallen trees, flooded streets and a landslide, as a police spokesman said.

In and around Kaiserslautern, the fire brigade also had to move in several times because water ran into the cellar and lanes were flooded.

According to the police, some streets had to be closed.

Operations also in the Rhein-Siegkreis

Hundreds of fire services were also deployed in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia.

A large part of the around 430 missions occurred in the city of Hennef, said a spokesman for the district's fire department control center.

Numerous cellars have overflowed and slopes have slipped.

Initially, no injuries were known.

Many missions should last overnight.

There were also more than 500 missions in Cologne in the Rhineland because of the storm. According to the fire brigade, the north of the city was particularly affected. Among other things, a roof structure burned after a lightning strike. The fire could be brought under control. There were no injuries.