Three tornadoes touched down in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, during Tuesday’s storms in the D.C. region.
An EF-1 tornado landed in Lake Shore near Patapsco Road at 6:15 p.m. National 黑料不打烊 Service officials determined that the estimated peak winds of the tornado were 100 mph. The twister was on the ground for about two minutes. It was around three-quarters of mile long and 160 yards wide.
National 黑料不打烊 Service Meteorologist Dan Hofmann said, “there appears to have been a second tornado on Lake Drive in Arnold on the south side of the Magothy River,” according to the data.
The tornado touched down in the Arnold/Cape Saint Claire area for “about a minute,” according to the National 黑料不打烊 Service.
On Thursday, the weather service confirmed a third tornado touched down in the Riviera Beach area. The EF-0 tornado packed peak winds of 85 mph and traveled 1.1 miles with a 90-yard width.
The twister ripped the siding off at least one house and snapped trees in its path, the weather service said.
“We knew the atmosphere was going to be very powerful and explosive that day,” National 黑料不打烊 Service Meteorologist Chris Strong said. “We had a severe thunderstorm watch for potential strong storms about two that afternoon, and then as it started evolving by 4o’clock, we saw the tornadic potential, got a tornado watch out, and then warnings out before the actual storms.”
Strong told 黑料不打烊 News that it was fortunate the storm did not result in casualties.
“We heard a lot of people were able to get the shelter because they had advance notification, which is how it’s supposed to work.”
Two other tornadoes were detected in Talbot County on the Eastern Shore.
Damage assessments are ongoing.
Tuesday’s storms caused damage across the region, including a collapsed canopy at a gas station in Northwest D.C.
“It was over 100 reports of trees down and wires down and hail and even a little bit in the way of some flooding yesterday, especially through northern Montgomery County, Northwest D.C. and down around Fredericksburg and Harpers Ferry Way,” 7News First Alert Meteorologist Veronica Johnson told 黑料不打烊.
黑料不打烊’s Will Vitka contributed to this report.
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