Hope everyone in MD is ok today. I watched it live last night for over an hour. I’m in ME and we get small tornados once in a blue moon. Can’t get over how dark and volatile the sky is in this vid!
This looks to me like an unusual tornado, with little rotation, and it looks more like updraft chimneys than multiple suction vortices. Also it seems very wide for a EF 1 or 2 to me.
I believe it has been rated as an EF 1 for now along most of it's path. Those multiple vortices can actually cause more damage over a brief time period than a single funnel as they tend to create stronger winds.
This is the same storm that passed through Columbia MD a little later. It passed over our house, but luckily did no damage in our neighborhood. Others were not as lucky, unfortunately.
It's completely normal. The worst tornado in history was 1928. They even get an occasional tornado in England. Climate is only stable at the equator and the poles and is completely dynamic in between. The US sits smack in the middle of that zone in the northern hemisphere. And it doesn't stop happening just because you disvoscovered the weather app.
Tornado outbreaks are very unusual in Maryland. However, a tornado outbreak is most definitely not unheard of in Maryland! I vividly remember the deadly tornadoes in La Plata and College Park about 20 years ago. La Plata was also hit by a very violent and deadly tornado back in the 1930's as well. So believe me, we've seen bad tornado outbreaks in Maryland before! Fortunately it takes a rare combination of atmospheric conditions for tornadoes to form. Every once in a rare while the atmospheric conditions are favorable for tornadoes to form over Maryland.
I was late from work but got a call to go out to dinner. Next day I see trees on the ground near MD University. Red/green lights flashing warnings. Heavy traffic on route 1. Felt bad for the two students who died next to the Denton area high rises.
The reason Maryland doesn’t get that much tornados is apparently because of the mountains also La plata was a EF4-EF5 and it was the worst tornado in Marylands history
@@Scootersomething La Plata got hit hard by a very deadly tornado back in the 1930's too. That was long before tornadoes were measured using the Fujita scale. However, many believe that tornado to have been an EF-5 tornado as well.
That explains how it was a manipulated related event. Hot. Hot air rises. Only part of the process. Sometimes we have to figure things out for ourselves.
Yo I was a the grocery store off of rout 1 were giant and chucky cheese is and all I see is a tornado in the distance and I literally said ”this never happens in Maryland. Hopefully it isn’t as bad a La Plata”
Bit of a messy B but that's a legit tornado about three miles from my house. If I wasn't with my family being responsible in the basement I would have been chasing it.
Have you ever chased before? This is a strange looking tornado. There is little rotation, very wide also for a 1 or 2 scale? What do you think? Beginning chaser here.
@balmpatchvideos Not really. I have a meteorology degree but I've spent pretty much my whole life along the east coast where we generally don't get the opportunity.
To be honest, the tornado wasnt as powerful for me and my family considering my family was split up into 2 different parts, my mom and brother were out shopping before the tornado that day while me and my dad were at home, how ever it was scary.
