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EF0 tornado in Washington County, Maryland

Tornado June 5, 2024 · Washington County, Maryland

EF0
Rating
0.6 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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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

Radar data from KLWX WSR-88D radar in Sterling as well as the FAA Terminal Doppler Weather Radar for Washington Dulles International Airport (TIAD), paired with video from a trained spotter, confirms a tornado touched down for several minutes over

open fields adjacent to King Road near Boonsboro. The tornado lifted and touched down several times per the spotter`s video over several minutes while moving slowly north-northeast. The tornado touchdowns remained over open fields with no visible damage left in its wake.

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 Boonsboro (39.4898, -77.6625).

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 Carroll CountyEF0 Baltimore City (c) CountyEF0 Howard County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1174099. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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