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A Doppler weather radar image of the College Park tornado near its peak at 21:21 UTC. The tornado outbreak of September 24, 2001 was one of the worst tornado events to ever have directly affected the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area in the United States. [1]
In late 2023, American meteorologist and tornado expert Thomas P. Grazulis created the Outbreak Intensity Score (OIS) as a way to rank tornado outbreaks. [1] [2] For the score, only significant tornadoes are counted: F2/EF2 tornadoes receive 2 points each, F3/EF3 tornadoes receive 5 points each, F4/EF4 tornadoes receive 10 points each, and F5/EF5 tornadoes receive 15 points each. [1]
Another funnel cloud passed over Union Station, but did not touch down as a tornado until it reached the College Park and Beltsville areas of Maryland. [24] Two people died and 57 were injured. [25] April 6, 2017: A tornado classified as EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita scale touched down in southeastern D.C., damaging trees on Joint Base Anacostia ...
Cochran’s Tunnel, followed by the tornado, was the one-two punch that took the park down. The tornado removed 80% of the mature tree canopy from the 409 acres that make up Cherokee Park ...
Take Shelter. The Venn diagram of tornado movies and psychological thrillers only has one overlap: Take Shelter.In the film, Michael Shannon plays Curtis, a family man who starts being plagued ...
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The other nine tornadoes were rated F0. [4] The next day, 12 tornadoes, including two F2 twisters, touched down across Central Iowa. Although more than $300,000 in damage was done, there were no injuries. An F0 tornado was also confirmed in Illinois. Overall, the two days produced 21 tornadoes, and one injury. [4]
1966 Candlestick Park tornado outbreak: March 3–4, 1966: Louisiana – Mississippi – Alabama – North Carolina: 4: 58 fatalities, 521 injuries: Outbreak produced the Candlestick Park tornado, which was an extremely violent F5 tornado or tornado family that killed 58 people and traveled 202.5 mi (325.9 km) across Mississippi and Alabama. It ...