andyhb Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Anyone see this? Supposedly a video of a possible tornado hitting the 97.1 studio in Rockville - http://www.washfm.com/player/?mid=23344668 "Oh my god...it's actually rotating...omg..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanWxFreak Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 "Oh my god...it's actually rotating...omg..." My favorite part was when a woman in the background says "I think I am going to throw up" and someone responds "Do you need a hug?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gocaps Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Anyone see this? Supposedly a video of a possible tornado hitting the 97.1 studio in Rockville - http://www.washfm.com/player/?mid=23344668 If that was a tornado, a few million people got hit by a tornado today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanWxFreak Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 If that was a tornado, a few million people got hit by a tornado today. Huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gocaps Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Huh? What 'hit' them in that video was not a tornado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtropics Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 A colorful sunset tonight... Your backyard is beautiful. I am so jealous! I really need to leave crummy MoCo in favor of a place on the bay! Atleast until I relocate permently to a place in the coastal south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 What 'hit' them in that video was not a tornado. Yeah it was the rainshaft and they simply saw straight line winds as the storm rolled through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disc Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Anyone see this? Supposedly a video of a possible tornado hitting the 97.1 studio in Rockville - http://www.washfm.com/player/?mid=23344668 Rotation? Uh. It was more entertaining listening to that woman in the background having a meltdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Went up to Cloverly around 8:30 and damage was impressive. Would think winds could not have been less than 70mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Talked with family member who was up at rte 100 and I-95 area. Was watching radar at exact same time. She was getting upset because raining so hard and blowing enough had to pull over. In front of her she said the "clouds were on the ground" but not any rotation nor incredible winds so I don't know how far away exactly. It did not end real quickly, I think closer to 10 minutes than five. Lot was going on observation wise myself and keeping up with the phone convo. All the traffic had pulled over so probably some others that were shaken up too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 I was in what appeared to be the center of the signature on radar, even though rotation was weakening at that point. I did NOT see a funnel or tornado, although it was a very ominous scene, not to mention there was flash flooding, strong winds and literally gridlock roads. A lot of cars parked under overpasses and some kook on the radio also recommended that. Luckily he was corrected by the host. I believe this was in Elkridge. I've been driving literally all day, so haven't gotten to look at much in the way of reports. I'm still 3+ hours from home lol. Talked with family member who was up at rte 100 and I-95 area. Was watching radar at exact same time. She was getting upset because raining so hard and blowing enough had to pull over. In front of her she said the "clouds were on the ground" but not any rotation nor incredible winds so I don't know how far away exactly. It did not end real quickly, I think closer to 10 minutes than five. Lot was going on observation wise myself and keeping up with the phone convo. All the traffic had pulled over so probably some others that were shaken up too. I was very near both of those places at exactly the same time, ~4:10-4:15ish and I was on the road. Certainly were some clouds that extended as near to the surface as I could see in the trees/buildings, but I saw no rotation (and I looked). Once the rain hit, it was torrential, but I was so close to home that I just wanted to get there and kept going. Any rotation looked like it stayed south of I-95 based on radar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 I left Woodlawn at 4, got to Odenton at 4:45, which took me by the airport area. By the time I got to I-195, the sun was coming out. While I'm by no means spotter trained, I saw nothing of suspicion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeffsvilleWx Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 I left Woodlawn at 4, got to Odenton at 4:45, which took me by the airport area. By the time I got to I-195, the sun was coming out. While I'm by no means spotter trained, I saw nothing of suspicion. I'm certainly not an expert either, but I didn't see any rotation on level 2 radar data, and I was watching it pretty closely as I have family in Severn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Though there were some pretty neat (that's the technical term right?) bright white clouds in front of the dark blue backdrop of the storm. I assumed this was something to do with the storm getting over water? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 LOL just watched that video from 97.1. They thought that whole rain shaft was a large tornado. What would people from the Plains states think of that clip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Your backyard is beautiful. I am so jealous! I really need to leave crummy MoCo in favor of a place on the bay! Atleast until I relocate permently to a place in the coastal south. Thank you! I am very lucky to live in a waterfront community that has many water accesses which is often hard to find around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 looks like BWI would have gotten around 1/2" of snow on .04" qpf with the backlash this morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsentropicLift Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Even though it shouldn't is still amazes me how some of the general public is to stupid to realize the difference between straight line winds in a thunderstorm and an actual tornado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeoman Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 I guess all the anti-derecho people are wrong Steve Rudin ABC7 @SteveRudinABC7 12m It's official! On 12-13 June 2013 a low-end derecho moved over 600 miles & 150+ damaging wind reports. #BREAKING Our Derecho is now forming over northern Illinois no. Suck it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Since SPC doesn't post their criteria anywhere not sure what it is specifically but the event did not meet the initial Fujita definition of a derecho. Regardless, it produced like 5 reports around here.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quincy Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 An interesting thing here was that some of the climo data was hitting areas further south hard. Here's a 72hr analog-based "forecast" from the GFS from 00z 11, valid for the 13th. Not bad actually... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 I'm not sure it was that clear where the focus would be. The timing argued for south and east of DC for the most widespread. But if it was not for that initial shift from the morning system we probably would have had a more significant event. Arguably, in retrospect, we should have maybe anticipated that cold pool to do what it did despite model simulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 LOL just watched that video from 97.1. They thought that whole rain shaft was a large tornado. What would people from the Plains states think of that clip? Probably thinking that it's someone who mistook a rain shaft with straight line winds for a tornado because they rarely see them and the media was hyping things up as the end of days. They would probably think that the people in the video are lucky to not know the difference between a rain shaft/straight line winds and a tornado because tornados destroy lives. Even though it shouldn't is still amazes me how some of the general public is to stupid to realize the difference between straight line winds in a thunderstorm and an actual tornado. It shouldn't surprise you. Why should the general public, most of whom will never experience a tornado in their lives, be able to tell the difference between them, especially on a day when there was all kinds of hyping up of tornado possibilities? Ads I wouldn't call the general public "stupid" because of that (though you can argue the general public is generally dumb). It's simply naïveté. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Even when you've seen a tornado it can be tricky identifying all the features leading up etc. Think public 'wishing' for things seen to be a tornado is that tornadoes are sexier than regular winds. Plus the power of suggestion.. If you're under a warning and see low hanging clouds you probably run to thinking its a tornado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfgmfg Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/13264 has a 125 megabyte GIF of GOES-14 SRSO (1min interval rapid scan) data of yesterday's visible clouds Also the blog mentions that the new GOES-R will be able to do 30 second scans with no breaks for station keeping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 ...TORNADO CONFIRMED IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND...LOCATION...NORTH POTOMAC TO BURTONSVILLE IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLANDDATE...JUNE 13 2013ESTIMATED TIME...3:41 PM EDT TO 3:59 PM EDTMAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF-0ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...75 MPHMAXIMUM PATH WIDTH...150 YARDSPATH LENGTH...17.3 MILESBEGINNING LAT/LON...39.091N / 77.269WENDING LAT/LON...39.108N / 76.947W* FATALITIES...0* INJURIES...0* THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TOCHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT(S) AND PUBLICATION INNWS STORM DATA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 At it's closest approach that tornado was probably about 2.5-3 miles from me. It probably passed right near or directly on top of the school where my mom works! ...SUMMARY...EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS...RADAR IMAGERY...AND A GROUND SURVEY CONCLUDEDA LONG TRACK EF-0 TORNADO OCCURRED IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLANDON THE AFTERNOON OF JUNE 13TH 2013. PEAK WINDS WERE ESTIMATED AT75 MPH. DAMAGE WAS ALMOST ENTIRELY FROM DOWNED TREES. IN THATREGARD NUMEROUS HOMES AND A FEW PARKED VEHICLES WERE DAMAGED BYTREES FALLING ONTO THEM. NO INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED.FIRST CONSISTENT DAMAGE WAS NOTED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF TURKEY FOOT ROADAND JONES LANE IN SOUTHWEST MONTGOMERY COUNTY NEAR NORTH POTOMACMARYLAND WHERE A FEW LARGE TREES WERE OVER THE ROAD. THE TORNADORACED EAST NEARLY 60 MPH TO THE NORTHERN SECTION OF ROCKVILLEMARYLAND. AT LEAST 14 HOMES WERE SIGNIFICANTLY DAMAGED BY UPROOTEDTREES. AS IT CONTINUED EAST TO THE NORBECK AND ASPEN HILLAREA 30 TREES WERE UPROOTED IN THE MANOR COUNTRY CLUB GOLF COURSEAS WELL AS NUMEROUS HOMES DAMAGED IN THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIESFROM TREE DAMAGE. TREE DAMAGE WAS NOTED ALONG THE INTERCOUNTYCONNECTOR ROUTE 200 AT THE LAYHILL ROAD EXIT. FINALLY A FEW TREESWERE DOWNED IN SPENCERVILLE AND BURTONSVILLE.BASED ON THE DAMAGE, THIS TORNADO IS RATED EF-0, WITH ESTIMATEDWIND SPEEDS OF 75 MPH. THE 17.3 MILE DAMAGE PATH LENGTH WAS COVEREDIN 18 MINUTES AND HAD CONSISTENT SMALL BRANCH DAMAGE WITHOCCASSIONAL AREAS WITH SIGNIFICANT TREE DAMAGE.ADDITIONALLY THERE WAS A PARALLEL 7 MILES PATH OF DAMAGE THROUGH SOUTHROCKVILLE AND GLENMONT MARYLAND WITH SIMILAR TREE DAMAGE. THISAREA WAS FOUND TO BE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS FROM THE OUTFLOW JUSTSOUTH OF THE TORNADO FROM THE PARENT SUPERCELL STORM.THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND ITS THANKS TO MONTGOMERYCOUNTY FIRE WHO CONFIRMED THE TORNADO ON THE GROUND DURING THE STORMAND MONTGOMERY COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WHO PROVIDED INVALUABLEASSISTANCE DURING THE GROUND SURVEY.&&$CAS/KCS/HAS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 That's one of the longer tornado paths in the close-in DC suburbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Question for DC proper folks: how often are multiple mature trees uprooted in the downtown (e.g. Dupont) area? Once a year? Twice a year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 That's one of the longer tornado paths in the close-in DC suburbs.Gotta wonder if its really a continuous path. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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