Freak storms brought flash flooding and huge hailstones to the Spanish port city of Tarragona and the surrounding region, sweeping people and vehicles down streets turned into rivers and causing widespread damage. The extreme weather also struck other parts of the country, forcing organisers to cancel a stage of the Vuelta a España cycling race and triggering mini-tsunamis in the Balearic Islands that halted a beach concert in Ibiza.

Footage showed a man being carried down a flooded Tarragona street by an overturned moped while another ran alongside trying to help, as hailstones battered cars, buses and buildings and part of a shopping centre roof collapsed. Around 100 pigeons were reportedly killed by the hail, and the storm generated more than 1,000 emergency calls, leaving some residents without power and three people hospitalised with non-serious injuries. Separately, 11 people were injured near Roda de Bera, including an 18-year-old critically hurt when a seafront wall collapsed, while in Majorca and Ibiza sudden sea-level surges known as "rissagues" flooded ports, beaches and an event site, prompting the cancellation of a concert in San Antonio.