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EF0 tornado in Carroll County, Maryland

Tornado June 5, 2024 · Carroll County, Maryland

EF0
Rating
0.7 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$250K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

Staff from the National Weather Service Baltimore/Washington Weather Forecast Office worked with Carroll County Emergency Management and trained weather spotters to confirm a tornado near the Carroll County Regional Airport occurred on Wednesday evening, June 5, 2024. The tornado touched down around Carroll County Regional Airport before moving east-northeast into the Bear Branch neighborhood. This was verified by video taken from a resident within the area along with NWS Doppler Radar in Sterling, Virginia that showed rotation within a thunderstorm. Overall damage was

sparse and brief within the tornado aside from a few trees down and minor structural damage to residences in Bear Branch. It appears that the tornado lifted before reaching Miller Road, as no additional damage was noted.

The wider storm

On the afternoon and evening of Wednesday, June 5th, 2024, a warm front slowly lifted northeast across the eastern Panhandle of West Virginia into northern Virginia as well as central and northeastern Maryland. At the same time, low pressure tracked along the warm front causing severe thunderstorms and tornadoes to develop. Over a dozen tornadoes were confirmed in just under six hours.

Began near Westminster Arpt (39.6100, -77.0000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

8 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Carroll CountyEF2 Carroll CountyEF1 Montgomery CountyEF1 Baltimore CountyEF1 Baltimore CountyEF0 Washington CountyEF0 Baltimore City (c) CountyEF0 Howard County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1174098. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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