A tornado in February?
FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
Jared Klein, at the NWS in Sterling, sent me an article from the Democratic Advocate reporting a storm that struck Westminster, Feb. 19, 1893. Roaring wind toppled a chimney; destroyed a stable and barn; unroofed a dorm at Western Maryland College and blew down the steeple at St. Paul’s Reformed. The winds appeared cyclonic, and damage fell along a path less than a half-mile wide.
Klein calls it “the closest account to a ‘snow tornado’ that I have personally come across ... It seems suspect that a tornado occurred on a day where the high temperature nearby [in Baltimore] was only in the low 40s, but I do not have any other meteorological information/evidence to accept or reject the tornado report," he said.
