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From: pocotrader2/8/2020 12:33:54 AM
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Weather Service confirms five tornadoes hit D.C. area Friday morning, biggest winter event on record


A sixth twister was confirmed in far northeast Md.


Storm damage on the 100 block of West Main St. in Westminster, Maryland on Friday. (Doug Kapustin/For The Washington Post)




By Ian Livingston



February 7 at 11:07 PM
Friday evening, the National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed that at least six tornadoes touched down during this morning’s historic winter thunderstorm event in Maryland and Virginia. Five were in the local Washington area.

Previously, the Washington region had seen a maximum of just one tornado in any winter severe thunderstorm event. The five occurring in a single morning represents, by far, the biggest winter tornado event on record for this area.




The confirmed tornadoes join at least 225 reports of wind damage logged by the National Weather Service in the Mid-Atlantic stretching from southeast Virginia through northern New Jersey. It is the most reports on record in the Mid-Atlantic from a severe thunderstorm outbreak during the winter months.

[ A historic winter thunderstorm outbreak with likely tornadoes rocked the D.C. area Friday morning. Here’s how and why.]

The first of the tornadoes happened near Leesburg in Loudoun County, with two additional touchdowns in Montgomery County, another in central Carroll County in northern Maryland and yet one more in eastern Frederick County. The sixth was in far northeast Maryland.

Leesburg tornado
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