Showing posts with label National Weather Service. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Weather Service. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

The Disaster Master Strikes Again

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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.



...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 OF COLTON POINT RD...RT 242 WITH BAYVIEW RD AND

ALONG BEACH RD BETWEEN CHARLES HALL RD AND POINT BREEZE RD. A FEW

SHINGLES WERE BLOWN OFF SOME STRUCTURES IN THIS AREA. A TREE CAME

DOWN ON WIRES IN THE 38300 BLOCK OF BEACH RD. A TRAMPOLINE NEAR A

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 POTOMAC RIVER JUST BEFORE 9 PM.
 
 
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.
 
Nashville
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.
 
 
But it gets better.  My homes in Iowa, Nebraska and New Jersey all got hit by tornadoes, one was destroyed.


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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