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The following was released by the National Weather Service yesterday regarding a tornado in Southern Maryland.
DETAILS FROM
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
...BRIEF EF-0 TORNADO CONFIRMED IN COLTONS POINT MARYLAND...
LOCATION...COLTONS POINT IN ST MARYS COUNTY MARYLAND
DATE...10 JUNE 2013
ESTIMATED TIME...9:01 PM TO 9:01 PM EDT
MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF-0
MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...65 MPH
MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH...50 YARDS
LENGTH...0.25 MILES
BEGINNING LAT/LON...38.223N / 76.755W
ENDING LAT/LON...38.226N / 76.753W
* FATALITIES...0
* INJURIES...0
* THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE
PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT(S) AND PUBLICATION IN NWS STORM DATA.
...BRIEF EF-0 TORNADO CONFIRMED IN COLTONS POINT MARYLAND...
LOCATION...COLTONS POINT IN ST MARYS COUNTY MARYLAND
DATE...10 JUNE 2013
ESTIMATED TIME...9:01 PM TO 9:01 PM EDT
MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF-0
MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...65 MPH
MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH...50 YARDS
LENGTH...0.25 MILES
BEGINNING LAT/LON...38.223N / 76.755W
ENDING LAT/LON...38.226N / 76.753W
* FATALITIES...0
* INJURIES...0
* THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE
PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT(S) AND PUBLICATION IN NWS STORM DATA.
...SUMMARY...
A GROUND SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...TOGETHER
WITH RADAR DATA FROM THE ANDREWS AFB TERMINAL DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR
DETERMINED THERE WAS A BRIEF EF-0 TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN COLTONS POINT
MARYLAND. MINOR TREE AND ROOF DAMAGE AND WAS NOTED IN THE VICINITY
OF THE INTERSECTION OFCOLTON
POINT RD. BAYVIEW RD
ALONGBEACH RD CHARLES HALL RD POINT BREEZE RD.
SHINGLES WERE BLOWN OFF SOME STRUCTURES IN THIS AREA. A TREE CAME
DOWN ON WIRES IN THE 38300 BLOCK OFBEACH
RD.
RESIDENCE ON COLTON POINT RD NEXT TO THE TOWN POST OFFICE WAS LIFTED
UP AND BECAME LODGED 90 FEET UP IN NEARBY TALL PINE TREE. TWO LARGE
WOODEN PLAY SET WERE BLOWN OVER...ONE WAS DRAGGED ABOUT 15 FEET.
THIS TORNADO WAS LIKELY THE EXTENSION OF A WATERSPOUT THAT CROSSED
THEPOTOMAC RIVER JUST BEFORE 9 PM.
A GROUND SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...TOGETHER
WITH RADAR DATA FROM THE ANDREWS AFB TERMINAL DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR
DETERMINED THERE WAS A BRIEF EF-0 TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN COLTONS POINT
MARYLAND. MINOR TREE AND ROOF DAMAGE AND WAS NOTED IN THE VICINITY
OF THE INTERSECTION OF
ALONG
SHINGLES WERE BLOWN OFF SOME STRUCTURES IN THIS AREA. A TREE CAME
DOWN ON WIRES IN THE 38300 BLOCK OF
RESIDENCE ON COLTON POINT RD NEXT TO THE TOWN POST OFFICE WAS LIFTED
UP AND BECAME LODGED 90 FEET UP IN NEARBY TALL PINE TREE. TWO LARGE
WOODEN PLAY SET WERE BLOWN OVER...ONE WAS DRAGGED ABOUT 15 FEET.
THIS TORNADO WAS LIKELY THE EXTENSION OF A WATERSPOUT THAT CROSSED
THE
Well I live on the intersection of Charles Hall Road and Beach Road and at exactly 9:01 pm on June 10, about a month ago, I was standing in my yard taking photos of the nasty weather and hoping to get a picture of the tornado the National Weather Service said was between Fredericksburg, Virginia and Coltons Point, Maryland, on the banks of the Potomac River. It was supposed to be headed right toward us.
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Suddenly the sky turned black and a roar of wind like a Cessna on steroids hit and the sky directly above me started twirling in a massive circle. It was the second time I watched a tornado go directly overhead here in Maryland and my third experience as I was standing in a Nashville parking lot in 1998 when a large tornado swooped overhead and slammed that city.
And since arriving in Southern Maryland three hurricanes have hit.
Good thing I had all that practice growing up in Iowa and Nebraska when we had to fill sandbags to stop the Mississippi or Missouri rivers from flooding.
Or had to survive paralyzing blizzards and 35 below zero cold.
All of a sudden our torrid heat wave doesn't seem all that bad.
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