Violent thunderstorms with squalls and heavy rain hit people in many regions of Germany.

In Stuttgart alone, the fire brigade counted over 330 missions from Monday evening to early Tuesday.

Persistent heavy rain caused several tunnels to fill up with water in a very short time.

Parts of the roof cladding were covered at the Stuttgart State Opera.

Statues also fell from their pedestals.

“I'm under the roof and I'm getting really wet,” said the director Viktor Schoner of the dpa on Monday evening.

The side stage was under water, and some of the rain poured into the building through the lamps.

250 guests were at a recital in the opera at the time of the storm, no one was injured.

In the district of Calw, fire brigade and police forces were very busy in the evening.

A spokesman for the Pforzheim police spoke of flooded streets, overflowing gullies and landslides in the Altensteig community.

Some severe storms also hit Rhineland-Palatinate and parts of Hesse.

In the Vorderpfalz there were 265 missions due to the heavy rain event within a short time, said the fire brigade on Tuesday morning.

In the city of Ludwigshafen alone, there were 84 missions, water was pumped from basements and apartments, and fallen trees were removed.

Numerous missions for the fire brigade

Heavy rain caused a lot of work for the emergency services in Koblenz.

The fire brigade and police were on duty due to full basements, flooded streets and several accidents.

In Bad Dürkheim, the emergency services increasingly moved out at night because of muddy streets and flooded cellars.

On two motorways in Rhineland-Palatinate, heavy rains caused accidents with injuries.

On the A3 and the A48 there were a total of seven accidents in the late afternoon in the area of ​​the Montabaur motorway police, as the police announced.

One person was seriously injured and three others suffered minor injuries.

A total of twelve vehicles were involved in the accidents.

In Bavaria, too, the storm raged late on Tuesday evening until late into the night.

Within a very short time there were 101 fire brigade and 25 rescue service operations, as the city of Würzburg announced.

The forces removed fallen trees, secured flying parts, pumped out basements that had been filled with water and secured flooded roads.

Many fire brigade operations also in the far west: In Bocholt in North Rhine-Westphalia, the emergency services had to move out more than 100 times after heavy rain.

Numerous cellars had to be pumped out and trees had to be cleared from streets.

No end of the storm in sight

A spokeswoman for the German Weather Service (DWD) said on Tuesday morning that the storm was not yet over.

Although the current storm that formed over Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria has now partially moved to the Czech Republic, the weather situation remains complex.

There are always new storms.

For Tuesday afternoon, the DWD expects "new, sometimes strong, thunderstorms with a local risk of severe weather, mainly due to heavy rain" in the north and later also in the east.