The storm "Ylenia" initially hit the north and east of Germany in particular.

The fire brigades and police control centers reported numerous operations early on Thursday morning, but there was no major damage for the time being.

The German Weather Service (DWD) in Offenbach had previously issued severe weather warnings for Wednesday evening to Thursday evening, mainly for the northern half of the country.

Early Thursday morning, the DWD announced on Twitter that the focus of the thunderstorms is now between northern Hesse, Saxony and southern Brandenburg.

Deutsche Bahn has stopped long-distance traffic in several federal states, including Berlin and Brandenburg.

No long-distance trains were in use until noon, the railway said on Thursday morning.

There are also cancellations and delays in regional traffic.

Due to the ongoing storm, further disruptions are to be expected.

The current storm is severely affecting train traffic in Berlin and Brandenburg, said a railway spokesman.

"Trees have fallen on the tracks and overhead lines, we are working flat out to eliminate the disruptions." According to Bahn, there were also train cancellations and delays due to storms in Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony.

Deutsche Bahn informs all travelers about the current situation on its website.

Because of the storm, the Berlin fire brigade declared a state of emergency for the second time on Thursday morning.

State of emergency means that so many alarm calls are received that they can no longer be processed one after the other, as is usually the case, and other priorities are set.

This happens more often.

According to the police, a tree fell on a moving van between Montabaur and Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate.

The driver was not injured.

In southern Hesse, the police reported "increased" calls about storm damage in the early hours of the morning.

There were trees on many roads.

The fire brigade, road maintenance departments and police were on duty. 

"Storm is when the sheep have no more curls," it is often said in East Frisia.

The police in the extreme north-west of Lower Saxony warned of the dangers of hurricane "Ylenia" with another animal on Thursday.

The Emden/Leer Police Inspectorate published a photo montage of a cow flying over a dike and an East Frisian landscape on Twitter. 

What is meant is: It is storming in East Friesland and drivers should drive carefully.

When asked, a police spokeswoman gave the all-clear: "No, we haven't had any cows flying around." There have also been no injuries as a result of the storm in the area of ​​​​the police inspection.

The picture was only intended to illustrate the power of the storm in a humorous way.

Tens of thousands of power outages

In Bavaria, the storm caused the electricity to fail in thousands of households.

The largest electricity network operator in the Free State, Bayernwerk Netz, recorded 10,000 people affected, as a spokesman said on Thursday morning.

In most cases, the supply was restored quickly.

The cause of the failures are often trees that have fallen on lines.

How long it takes to restore power depends on the specific damage.

Among other things, it depends on whether the damaged line can be bypassed by changing the circuits in the network.