Tornado touched down in Baltimore County
It's official. Those thunderstorms Wednesday evening included a small tornado that touched down briefly in Baltimore County. A National Weather Service team yesterday inspected the tree falls and other forest damage north of Butler and concluded it was consistent with a small tornado - an F-0 on the "enhanced" Fujita scale. Here is the statement from Sterling.
Here's The Sun story. And here is the link to video, shot Wednesday in Silver Spring, of a funnel cloud that was part of the same storm system. We're told the cloud never touched the ground in Montgomery County, and therefore was not officially a tornado (which, by definition, must touch down). But it sure looks like it did.
