Definitely one of the worst weather events in the recent history of Europe. The good coverage of French news helps a lot, but I think some key newspapers might be lacking; Puy en Velay and Haute Saone coverage has been particularly disastrous in the available news.

A lot of outstanding hailstorms in Spain have been slow-moving formed or likely formed in moderate shear conditions. From memory Alcañiz 2003, Cartagena 1949, Zuera 1915, or Albacete 1859 supercells are among the examples. Developed with low high altitude winds but major direction change, often 180º

In France they used to call hailstorms tornadoes. While tornadoes themselves would often get called cyclones or trombes.

I think a lot of countries have a problem there. In Spain: huracan (hurricano) mostly for non-tornado winds but very rarely tornadoes, ciclon (cyclone) common tornado term but also used for destructive non-tornado, tromba de aire one of the few that is usually tornadoes (but not always), plus others

The first hour of the night had the 2nd and 3rd hailstorms ravage the Ain department, with many reports of 0.5 and 1 kg hail, and roofs obliterated over the entire area. Some people were missing in the countryside at the time of the news.

At Villefranche the roar preceded it by ~30 min. The chunks of ice bombarded it at 19:57, sunset, exploding wooden storm windows into shards, blowing holes through roofs, showering the streets in tile fragments. The local newspaper weighed a 750 g hailstone. A person hit by the hail died 3 h after.

The first storm approached the Saint Galmier area with a noise like a train. Reportedly hail had already killed a person around Saint Hilaire. Saint Galmier was reportedly impacted by hailstones the size of bricks and up to 1 kg weight. Killing goats and hunt animals, destroying roofs...

Some circular areas 50 km seem to have been entirely or almost entirely swiped by large hail. A bunch of places were hit twice by large hail events, a few even 3-4 times.

This outbreak came to my attention when reading newspapers and finding that some towns were hit twice by very large to giant hail only an hour apart or so, and also because of the large weight of some of the reported hailstones. But I've really only scratched the surface with this one so far.

I'm surprised by how late in the day and powerful was that of Jun 30. Heralded by lower intensity afternoon storms, it started at sunset and lasted the first two hours of nighttime, giant hail >10 cm exploding in multiple storms across a few departments and spreading shortly after into Germany.

I'm surprised by how late in the day, and powerful, was the outbreak of Jun 30. Heralded by lower intensity afternoon storms, it started with sunset and lasted the first two hours of nighttime, giant hail >10 cm exploding in multiple storms across a few departments and shortly after into Germany.

This is amazing, thanks for sharing.