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By Scott Dance, The Baltimore Sun | April 22, 2013
A tornado touched down in the Largo area of Prince George's County during storms that passed through the region Friday, the National Weather Service confirmed Monday. Meteorologists had previously confirmed another tornado in Northern Virginia. The Largo tornado touched down at 7:26 p.m. in the Marlboro Ridge neighborhood, uprooting trees, blowing out windows and garage doors and walls. The tornado traveled about half a mile, lasting less than a minute, according to the weather service.
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By Scott Dance, The Baltimore Sun | April 19, 2013
Update: The National Weather Service cancelled the tornado watch for all counties west of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland around 8:30 p.m. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., had been eyeing storms that have lumbered through the Plains states this week to reach the East Coast Friday afternoon and evening. In the mid-Atlantic, the "environment is conducive for both damaging winds and a tornado threat. " Conditions could "prove favorable for storms to become organized with the potential for supercells," the forecasters wrote.
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By Scott Dance, The Baltimore Sun | January 30, 2013
A tornado watch and flash flood warning are in effect for the Baltimore region, with heavy rain and gusty winds expected through the night. The tornado watch area includes all of central and southern Maryland and is effective through 2 a.m. Thursday. A tornado watch means conditions are favorable for tornado development but does not mean any have or will occur. The Baltimore area is also under a flash-flood warning, coastal flood advisory and a wind advisory through early Thursday.
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By Scott Dance, The Baltimore Sun | October 23, 2012
A tornado with 80 mph winds moved across 1.2 miles near Jarrettsville on Friday night, National Weather Service officials confirmed Monday. The tornado ranked as an EF-0 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, according to a report the weather service's Baltimore/Washington forecast office posted to its website Monday afternoon. That classification is the weakest on the EF scale and includes tornadoes with gusts of 65 to 85 mph lasting at least three seconds. Damage discovered when weather service officials surveyed the area included a gazebo being lifted off the porch of a house and dropped on top of the house's roof and large trees being uprooted or snapped in half, according to a report posted on the weather service website Tuesday.
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BALTIMORE SUN MEDIA GROUP | October 23, 2012
The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down, damaging several homes and sending a gazebo up onto a roof , in Jarrettsville during the storms that passed through the Baltimore metro area Friday evening . "An EF-0 tornado with maximum winds of 80 miles per hour caused tree and minor roofing damage Friday evening between 7:07 p.m. and 7:12 p.m.," the National Weather Service said in a statement Monday afternoon. The path of the tornado stretched 1.2 miles, according to the statement.
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By Scott Dance and Steve Kilar, The Baltimore Sun | October 20, 2012
The National Weather Service has recorded two reports of damage in Harford County from storms that moved through the Baltimore metro area Friday evening. Just after 7 p.m., a 911 caller reported downed trees and powerlines along a 100-foot wide path near Salem Church and Cox roads in Jarrettsville. About the same time, a gazebo was reported damaged near the intersection of Route 23 and Salem Church Road. A tornado has not been confirmed, but the damage is in an area that was under a tornado warning at the time of the reports, said National Weather Service meteorologist Stephen Konarik in Sterling, Va. The weather service will investigate the damage and any photographic evidence to determine whether a tornado occured, he said.