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I received 3.15 inches of rain last night in the rain gauge. The little Lehigh is a sea of brown out of its banks and actually the water level alert went off this morning for the gauge on 10th street in Allentown indicating the creek was still in flood stage.

I'm still amazed at the intensity of what went through @11pm last night. I pull a polished aluminum tank trailer which was kind of dirty at the start of my shift and that thing looked like it was pressure washed after the heaviest of the rain had passed.

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Hahahahahahaha I can't stop laughing!

" tornado ! We're in it! Son of bit€h!" hahaha. Nice video. I'm guessing when you first turned right, that was the tornado ahead of you's?

Honestly, I think initially it touched down right on us. When we were at the light, I looked up out the front windshield, and it was spinning like crazy, and that's when all hell broke loose. I think right after we turned, it was right there, slowly moving up Bel Air Rd. The tree damage from it starts back before the Wawa, that's what makes me think it touched down either on us, or just to our left. (Don't remember whether that was North or South, to give you direction wise.)

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC

535 PM EDT SAT JUN 02 2012

EARLIER TODAY...THE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE IN

STERLING VIRGINIA SENT FIVE STORM SURVEY TEAMS ACROSS THE REGION TO

DETERMINE IF YESTERDAY`S THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE WAS CAUSED BY

TORNADOES. THE SURVEY TEAMS WENT TO:

1. DAMASCUS IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

2. ACCOKEEK IN PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY.

3. FT. MEADE AND BWI AIRPORT IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.

4. FALLSTON IN HARFORD COUNTY.

5. SIMPSONVILLE IN HOWARD COUNTY.

6. MT. AIRY IN CARROLL COUNTY.

THE STORM SURVEY PROCESS WILL BE ONGOING THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK

DUE TO THE LARGE NUMBER OF DAMAGE REPORTS THAT HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.

WHILE SOME PRELIMINARY INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE LATER THIS

EVENING FROM THE SURVEYS...FINAL DETERMINATION OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF

TORNADOES WILL NOT BE COMPLETED UNTIL ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS ARE

SURVEYED.

AT THIS TIME...BASED ON CORROBORATING DAMAGE REPORTS WITH RADAR

ANALYSIS...IT IS HYPOTHESIZED THAT BETWEEN 5 AND 10 TORNADOES

OCCURRED YESTERDAY AROUND THE REGION.

PLEASE CHECK LATER THIS EVENING FOR UPDATED PUBLIC INFORMATION

STATEMENTS FROM THE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE

DEALING WITH YESTERDAY`S STORMS.

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Its now Official Ryan and I were in an EF1 Tornado. Where our location was is dead within the Spotter network location on the radar and where we were was Pleasant Hills right on the boarder of South West Bel Air,MD.

000

NWUS51 KLWX 022221

LSRLWX

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC

620 PM EDT SAT JUN 02 2012

..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...

..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....

..REMARKS..

0554 PM TORNADO PLEASANT HILLS 39.48N 76.39W

06/01/2012 HARFORD MD NWS STORM SURVEY

*** 2 INJ *** RATED EF-1. PATH LENGTH 1.25 MILES AND

WIDTH 0.25 MILES.

&&

EVENT NUMBER LWX1200267

$$

LEE

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SmokeEater....Don't rail me too hard, I sound like a complete moron in the video, lol.

I don't think you sound like a moron, to me one of your first comments, call this is in was the calm and appropriate response, the rest of it was just human nature reacting to being in a tornado. And I agree, I think tornado genesis(sp) happened just above you or very close within a block or two of where you were at. Was that skill or luck that you positioned yourself at that point instead of 1/4 mile up the road?? That's only for you to answer. .

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SmokeEater....Don't rail me too hard, I sound like a complete moron in the video, lol.

I don't think you sound like a moron, to me one of your first comments, call this is in was the calm and appropriate response, the rest of it was just human nature reacting to being in a tornado. And I agree, I think tornado genesis(sp) happened just above you or very close within a block or two of where you were at. Was that skill or luck that you positioned yourself at that point instead of 1/4 mile up the road?? That's only for you to answer. .

We were actually snaking to a degree our way back down out of York County where Shrewsbury,PA is where we saw a possible funnel and heavy rain then went back to that wal-mart there in Shrewsbury and saw another wall cloud spoke to some people there, then worked our way down to near South West Bel Air.

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SmokeEater....Don't rail me too hard, I sound like a complete moron in the video, lol.

I don't think you sound like a moron, to me one of your first comments, call this is in was the calm and appropriate response, the rest of it was just human nature reacting to being in a tornado. And I agree, I think tornado genesis(sp) happened just above you or very close within a block or two of where you were at. Was that skill or luck that you positioned yourself at that point instead of 1/4 mile up the road?? That's only for you to answer. .

Honestly, complete luck. The traffic at the 2 lights before this one caused us to be where we were. Once we got by the Wawa, I turned off Bel Air Rd., because I realized how close we were. When I went back out, I thought the couplet had moved on slightly, but it hadn't. Getting down there, yes we worked our way around to the SE side of the storm, but had to somewhat core punch it, not much of a core but rain, and at that point we ended up by the Wawa, where the video was shot. Getting there was skill, close in was all luck, lol.

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We were actually snaking to a degree our way back down out of York County where Shrewsbury,PA is where we saw a possible funnel and heavy rain then went back to that wal-mart there in Shrewsbury and saw another wall cloud spoke to some people there, then worked our way down to near South West Bel Air.

so not knowing the area, (yes I could goggle it but I won't.) your quote " then worked our way down to near South West Bel Air." (down to me means worked your way south) That sounds to me like you went south maybe south east to position yourself in the right spot, sounds to me like some skill was involved with this, but maybe a bit close for comfort. If you know what I mean.

Good luck in future chases!

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