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August 5, 2009

NWS reports on Frederick Co. tornadoes

Tornado damage in Ijamsville 

Still catching up on the violent weather that occurred while I was on vacation, including two tornadoes that touched down in Frederick County on Friday, July 31.

Investigators from the National Weather Service found evidence of two separate tornadoes in the Ijamsville area. Both were rated EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with top winds of 100 to 110 mph. They damaged hundreds of trees, lifted the roofs off several houses and destroyed a number of metal barns (photo).

One of the twisters swirled across the area for 2.5 miles, with a maximum width of 125 yards. The second was on the ground for the same distance, widening to as much as 350 yards.

Here is the preliminary report from the NWS forecast office at Sterling, Va.

(AP PHOTO/Frederick News-Post)

Posted by Frank Roylance at 4:59 PM | | Comments (0)
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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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