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EF0 tornado in Baltimore County, Maryland

Tornado April 22, 2023 · Baltimore County, Maryland

EF0

Rating

6.7 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$1.0M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Baltimore County → Harford County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A line of severe thunderstorms produced an EF0 tornado along its leading edge as it passed over Fork, Fallston and western Bel Air Maryland on the mid-afternoon of Saturday April 22nd. The tornado was on the ground intermittently for eight minutes, but it produced a fair amount of tree damage along its nearly 7 mile path. Wind gusts where it caused noted damage were estimated 70 to 75 miles per hour along its path.

The tornado touched down in Fork Maryland in northeastern Baltimore County, about a mile from the border with Harford County. There it downed a tree which knocked down power poles and lines near the intersection of Sunshine Avenue and Harford Road.

The wider storm

A strong cold front produced a line of thunderstorms that resulted in widely scattered damaging straight-line wind gusts and a couple tornadoes.

Began near Fork (39.4700, -76.4400).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Montgomery County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1086640. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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