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The plot below (a) shows Z500 and lightning density for Europe, using the UK Met Office lightning database. Lightning activity over the Netherlands and northern Germany is quite high. A number of severe weather reports (b; source: ESSL severe weather database) has been collected from the region of the highest lightning activity, including 4 tornado reports over NE Germany. One of the observed tornadoes over Butzow, Germany, has been categorised as F3 tornado with 30 injured people.
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Precipitation totals over Europe from 05 May 06UTC to 06 May 06UTC (data: GTS and EFAS):
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