In Šišma, the dam of the pond above the village broke, mayor Marek Krystek told ČTK. The water hit both municipal and private property, there was almost a meter of water in a number of houses, the mayors said. Nobody was injured.

“It was a flash flood, the stream overflowed in an instant, the damage is in the order of millions of crowns, but we are glad that no lives were lost. The entire center of the village is devastated by water. We have a torn dam of the pond above the village of Šišma, which is now the main crisis situation for us. We did not have to provide replacement housing, in the end we managed it so that we did not have to evacuate the residents. However, it is still in play due to the damaged dam above the village. We are waiting for the arrival of experts who will tell us whether it is necessary,” Šišma mayor Marek Krystek told ČTK today.

The water also caused great damage in neighboring Kladníky. “Fortunately, there is no damage to life or health, but there is damage to property – both to municipal and private property. We are just mapping them, we mapped it at night with flashlights. There is mud, water or a mixture of topsoil and water everywhere, in some properties there was up to 70 centimeters in the interiors,” Kladník Mayor David Štěpánek told ČTK today.

“We are a village located in a hollow, due to the fact that it has been raining for three weeks now, the soil has been so saturated that everything has rolled from the surrounding fields. In normal conditions, our stream is a meter wide and barely flows, now it was the width of Bečva, so roughly 25 meters. He took everything along the way, there was a washing machine near the apartment building, and even cars in Šišma. A disaster, this wasn’t even in 1997,” said Štěpánek.

In Hradčany, the mayor received a warning from the Olomouc operation center about a tidal wave from Šišma five minutes before its arrival, at 19:30. “Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to react to it, I just had to announce to the citizens to secure their homes as much as possible and turn off the electricity. I received information from Přerov that bags were coming to us, but they arrived when we were washed away. It was a meter of water, it moved our car by seven meters at the office, it ground paving stones, we have two flats in an apartment building and two houses completely heated. The water also got into the basements of the houses. The infrastructure and equipment of the village is completely destroyed,” Hradčany Mayor Marie Galetová told ČTK today. “However, no one had to be evacuated, no one was hurt,” added the mayor.

According to fire department spokesperson Lucie Balážová, the tidal wave also affected the villages of Domaželice, Hlinsko, Nové Dvory and Oldřichov. Firefighters rescued ten people from endangered family homes or inaccessible places. “In the village of Šišma, the wave was so strong that even cars floated, some ended up in the riverbed,” the spokeswoman said. Firefighters pumped water from 70 properties overnight.

Tropics and other storms this weekend

Thunderstorms and showers should develop as early as Friday night, clearing with some fog in the morning. During the day, the partly clear sky will gradually cloud over, while the arrival of heavy showers and storms from the west can be expected in places. By evening, however, these should cease. Night temperatures should not drop below 15 °C, while daytime temperatures rise up to 32 °C. Meteorologists from the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (ČHMÚ) warn of strong gusts of wind and showers during thunderstorms.

Showers and thunderstorms can also be expected on Saturday with increased cloud cover, especially in the evening. The lowest night temperatures will be in the range of 12-19 °C, during the day the mercury on the thermometer rises to 34 °C. The wind with a speed of 4 m/s will gradually increase to 6 m/s in some places.

Sunday will bring partly clear to cloudy skies, with increasing clouds from the west, most areas will be affected by thunderstorms and showers, some even very heavy. The wind can reach a speed of 15-20 m/s in gusts. At night, the temperature will not drop below 18 °C, and daytime temperatures will be almost identical to Saturday’s.

More clouds with occasional rain can be expected on Monday, but the clouds will gradually disappear from the west. A more significant cooling will also come, daytime temperatures will not exceed 24 °C, while night temperatures will not fall below 12-15 °C. 25 °C will not exceed daily temperatures even on Tuesday, when it will also be necessary to count on places with rain. At night, the temperature drops to 10 °C.

From Wednesday to Thursday, daytime temperatures will remain below 24°C, with Friday expected to warm to 26°C. Precipitation and cloudiness will gradually decrease. Night temperatures will stay at the lowest around 9 °C.