This archive report was first published on 28 July 2019.
Severe storms swept across Italy on Saturday and Sunday, claiming three lives and causing widespread destruction.
According to reports, a 26-year-old woman was driving home at around 2:00 am on Sunday when a mini-tornado lifted her car and sent it crashing against a railing.
Further north, a 45-year-old Norwegian competing in an ultramarathon in the Dolomite Mountains died after being hit by lightning at 2,000 metres (6,500 feet) altitude on Saturday afternoon.
On Sunday, a 70-year-old man died after his car got caught by flash-flooding near Arezzo, south of Florence in the northern Tuscany region.
The emergency services found his body in a mud-filled canal.
Italy's main agricultural organisation, Coldiretti, estimated that hail storms over the last 24 hours had caused millions of euros worth of damage across the country.
The worst-hit area was the Arezzo province in Tuscany, where orchards, fields of tobacco, sunflowers, and corn were completely destroyed.
