12km WRF initialised with , and nudged to the model analyses. The model produces event totals >150mm in more or less the right areas.
Preliminary results, caveat emptor.
I have chosen to show plots for 18UTC/14 July as this the time of maximum moisture flux over western Germany according to model.
At the tropopause there is a cut off PV lobe with a jet max at 300 hPa over western Germany/Switzerland. The PV lobe has torn off the stratospheric polar vortex in the previous days due to (Rossby) wave breaking at the tropopause