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NWS says it was a tornado:
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It's tough to tell. I doubt that guy knows exactly what happened because it the rain would have blocked his visibility. All the tree damage I can see seems to be unidirectional (to the car's right), but the fairly narrow corridor of damage seems more suggestive of an embedded tornado rather than a microburst. I'm sure NWS will send a survey team given the damage and the concurrent rotation visible on radar.
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See tree damage starting around 3:10
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Beautiful shot!
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Very interesting. It's tough to tell with the resolution, but it doesn't seem to be rotating. As always around here, the dang trees get in the way...
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It looks like the picture was taken from the roof of a parking garage at Columbia Mall: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Columbia,+MD/@39.216361,-76.8613105,32a,35y,197.4h,78.81t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7dfb06369a051:0xf0d6bd65b687635d!8m2!3d39.2037144!4d-76.8610462 From this point, the two high rise buildings on the left of the picture would be almost due south, meaning the light on the left side of the picture would be coming from the clear skies to the east and south of the line of storms. So, assuming he's using an extreme wide-angle (~10mm) lens, this picture certainly could be legit.
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I had a great view of that as it passed south of my office. There was definitely some lowering and broad rotation. Skies were about as green as I've seen them as the line was rolling in.
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Does anyone have a screenshot of the couplet? I didn't see anything when I looked, but my loop may not have gone back far enough.
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39 here. Hell of a way to run a snowstorm...
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58 at DCA 56 at BWI 49 at IAD Solid call by EJ, as always...
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Looks like I'm going to end up with 4.75" in N. Bethesda. That brings me to 23.75" for the year.
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Up to 4 inches in N. Bethesda. Sleet starting to mix in.
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Looks like LWX upped their totals
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3 inches in N. Bethesda. Visibility was under 1/8 mile under that yellow band.
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SN+ in N. Bethesda. Eyeballing at least 2"
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Looks like 11.5" will be the total here.
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Up to 10 inches here. It just doesn't want to stop.
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7.5 inches here. Perfect snow day.
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I've got around 6" in N. Bethesda. Beautiful sight!
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Alaska/Western Canada obs and discussion
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Devastating tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri
The Dude replied to Hoosier's topic in Weather Forecasting and Discussion
This is the last bit of damage I could find: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Joplin,+MO&hl=en&ll=37.030441,-94.330346&spn=0.003606,0.006968&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=57.772232,114.169922&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=18 What are you seeing down by Granby? -
It woke my wife up, and she woke me up. I felt the bed vibrating a bit. It felt pretty similar to the Germantown earthquake last year; nothing like Tuesday's.
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Yeah, but it was in Missouri then...