High Wind in Southern Baltimore, Maryland

High Wind March 2, 2018 – March 3, 2018 · Southern Baltimore, Maryland

58 mph

Estimated gust (50 kt)

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

Numerous trees were down due to high winds. A large tree branch fell onto a pedestrian in the 11000 block of Cedar Lane resulting in a fatality.

The wider storm

A low pressure system moving eastward from the central United States on Thursday March 1st, intensified rapidly as it moved offshore Thursday night and early Friday, deepening to 974 mb by the evening of Friday March 2nd.

Strong winds were present in the low levels of the atmosphere due to the strengthening pressure gradient, and were able to mix down to the surface in strong wind gusts under northwest flow cold air advection.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 746559. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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