Tornado Confirmed From June 13th Storm

The National Weather Service continues to conduct surveys on the damage from the storm that came through St. Mary's County last week. Today they released their preliminary report confirming a EF-0 Tornado began in the area of Oakley Road and Hodges Road. This tornado traveled through the county and ended in California.

This marks the third confirmed tornado in our area in the past year. Here are the links to the other two:

July 12, 2012 Tornado - Colton's Point

http://www.sdvfd5.com/apps/public/news/newsView.cfm?News_ID=99

June 10, 2013 Tornado - Colton's Point

http://www.sdvfd5.com/apps/public/news/newsView.cfm?News_ID=149

Below is the report by the National Weather Service.

...EF-0 TORNADO CONFIRMED IN ST MARYS COUNTY MD...

LOCATION...OAKLEY TO CALIFORNIA IN ST MARYS COUNTY MARYLAND
DATE...JUNE 13 2013
ESTIMATED TIME... 3:24 PM TO 3:42 PM EDT
MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF-0
MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...75 MPH
MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH...200 YARDS
LENGTH...13.8 MILES
BEGINNING LAT/LON...38.278N / 76.740W
ENDING LAT/LON...38.309N / 76.488W
* FATALITIES...NONE
* INJURIES...NONE

* THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE
PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT(S) AND PUBLICATION IN NWS STORM DATA.

...SUMMARY...

A GROUND SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...TOGETHER
WITH RADAR DATA FROM THE WSR-88D IN STERLING VA AND ANDREWS AFB
TERMINAL DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR DETERMINED THERE WAS A EF-0 TORNADO
THAT TRAVERSED NEARLY THE ENTIRE WIDTH OF SAINT MARYS COUNTY
MARYLAND. DAMAGE WAS INTERMITTENT ALONG THE PATH AND WAS CONFINED
TO TREE DAMAGE AND DAMAGE RESULTING FROM DOWNED TREES. NUMEROUS
LARGE TREES WERE UPROOTED AND SOME TREES WERE TOPPED. MANY WERE
NOTED IN THE VICINITY OF OAKLEY ROAD AND HODGES ROAD...BETWEEN OLD
ROLLING ROAD AND JOAN DRIVE AND BETWEEN SHADY MILE DRIVE AND TOWN
CREEK ROAD.

THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE ALSO OCCURRED ACROSS COLTONS POINT BETWEEN
SERENITY LANE AND POINT BREEZE ROAD. MANY LARGE TREES WERE UPROOTED
IN THIS AREA.