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Tornado warning expires

UPDATE 6:30 p.m.: The tornado warnings for Harford and Baltimore counties expired at 6 p.m. There are some reports of storm damage in Beckleysville, northwest Baltimore County, trees and wires down in Bentley Springs and Cockeysville, and 0.88-inch diameter hail in Owings Mills. But Meteorologist-in-charge Jim Lee, out at Sterling, said there was no immediate confirmation of a tornado touch-down.

Here's a damage report list from the NWS.

"Oftentimes we see rotation on radar, and straight-line wind damage on the ground," he said. A weather service team will visit damage sites in Baltimore County on Thursday to look for signs of a tornado strike.

Here's how it looked from BWI. We recorded 0.15 inch of rain here at Calvert & Centre streets, with gusts to 24 mph. The temperature dropped from 81 degrees at 4 p.m. to 69 degrees at 6 p.m.

EARLIER: The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for Harford and Baltimore counties.

To read more, click here. Here's the radar loop.
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Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page.
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