tornadoes and wind storms
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A 'waterspout' tornado was spotted over the Patuxent River on Tuesday, and a reader shared a photo of it. - A tornado was spotted over the Patuxent River in Calvert County Tuesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.
- Quarterly meeting draws slim attendance during council president's son's viewing
- The best and worst elements of the volunteer fire and ambulance service were on full public display over the past several days in Harford County, bringing into sharp focus exactly what is at stake as the county moves ahead with plans to evaluate the way fire, rescue and ambulance services are provided.
- Forest Hill man injured during Friday's storm recovering
- The number of confirmed tornadoes in Maryland June 1 has reached 11 and could soon rise to 12 or higher.
- "It was through in 20 seconds it's hard to believe so much damage could happen in so little time," said Brian Schorr as he stood outside his Fallston home Saturday morning. Schorr's home is the first in a group of 20 three-story, detached homes with narrow lots on the north side of the 200 block of Milton Avenue, just off Belair Road, where what several witnesses say was a tornado swept through around 6 p.m. Friday, shearing or uprooting trees and damaging homes and businesses.
- What a way to start out Graduation Week 2012 in Harford County.
- Residents, county employees and BGE crews were still picking up the pieces left by a hard-hitting F1 tornado that tore through Harford County Friday.
- Rainfall maps show the heaviest downpours were in the same areas as some of the most damaging tornadoes Friday.
- The tornado outbreak that struck across Maryland on Friday wasn't record-setting -- the state has a history of tornadoes.
- Nine tornadoes tore through Maryland on Friday. Six counties saw twisters during Friday's storm.
- National Weather Service confirms that nine tornadoes touched down in six counties in Maryland during Friday's storms.
- As people around Fallston waited for power to return Saturday, they began to pick up the pieces — and relive the sudden terror of the powerful storm.
- The Friday storm, that might have spawned at least one tornado in Fallstion, ripped through Harford County, doing some of the most severe damage in the triangular area bordered by Belair Road, Harford Road and Route 152.
- A band of severe storms battered the Baltimore area Friday afternoon, spawning a flurry of tornado warnings and flooding roads.
- Severe thunderstorms are expected to sweep across the mid-Atlantic Friday, with potential tornadoes and damaging winds.
- Carroll County Public Schools will hold students until the tornado warning has been lifted for all of Carroll County.
- Meteorologists say spike in tornadoes doesn't mean higher severe weather risk in Maryland
- Orioles shortstop J.J. Hardy received some scary news when the team¿s charter flight touched down in Chicago Sunday evening.
- Maryland is holding a statewide tornado preparedness drill Wednesday at 9:45 a.m.
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- Tornado warnings were issued in Tennessee on Friday morning.
- Weather conditions are expected to be ripe for a tornado outbreak across the middle of the country.
- Tornado victims in Joplin, Mo., got a little bit of comfort from The Pieceful Quilters.
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- The funnel cloud that caused minor damage in Ocean City on Thursday was officially a tornado, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.
