On the Whit Monday holiday a violent tornado swept through the town of Großenhain in Saxony in the afternoon. In about a quarter of an hour it damaged thousands of roofs, flattened parks and forests and left the old town looking like a building site.
▶ Open on the mapIt was rated F3 and the damage trail stretched for tens of kilometres from Saxony into Brandenburg.
Around 40 people were injured and one child died when a tree fell on a car, which is why the town still remembers the day every year.