Tornado Reports
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| 19:13Z | EF1 | KTBW | FL | Pinellas | Seminole | Widespread damage was observed in two mobile home parks, and a condominium roof was torn off in addition to numerous downed trees and branches. One minor injury was reported in the area. |
| 19:17Z | EF1 | KTBW | FL | Pasco | New Port Rw Pasco Ar | Seven homes were damaged on Block Player Dr. in Port Richey. One sustained major damage with 4 others sustaining some structural damage. There were also numerous downed trees in the area. |
| 19:22Z | EF1 | KTBW | FL | Hernando | Weeki Wachee Acres | Local Emergency Management reported two roofs that sustained major damage from a tornado in Spring Hill with 15 additional homes having minor sustained minor damage. |
| 19:24Z | EF1 | KTBW | FL | Pasco | Gowers Corner | A brief tornado occurred just north of State Road 52 in Pasco County. A barn sustained damage to the roof in which half of the roof was destroyed. |
| 20:22Z | EF1 | KTBW | FL | Pasco | Land O Lakes | A brief tornado occurred near Land O Lakes which condemned two homes due to significant roof damage. In addition, there were numerous downed trees in the vicinity. |
| 23:14Z | EF2 | KRAX | VA | Halifax | Piney Grove | A Tornado touched down four miles east-southeast of Crystal Hill at 714 PM EST, traveled northeast, and lifted/dissipated four miles west-southwest of Mt. Laurel|at 717 PM EST. At the maximum of its intensity, it caused EF2 level damage.||Where the tornado touched down was wooded in the 1200 block of Hundley Road. Here, several large trees were uprooted, blown to the north. As the tornado tracked northeast at 40 to 45 mph, it blew several large bales of hay westward across Hundley Road. Farther along its path, the tornado completely lifted the roof of a porch off a single family home, blowing the debris nearly 200 feet to the north into nearby woods. Several large trees were both uprooted and snapped as well.||Farther northeast when the storm reached its peak intensity, several mature 24-36 inch diameter pine trees were snapped while two nearby single family homes sustained significant roof damage. A car on one of the properties was crushed by falling trees. Additionally, when winds were estimated to be at 125 mph a roof was completely blown off a residence. Numerous mature trees on the same property snapped or uprooted with their debris blown in multiple directions. The tornado finally blew the roof off a nearby barn several hundreds yards to the north.||Damage amounts are estimated. |
| 00:19Z | EF1 | KLWX | MD | Howard | Long Corner | A tornado touched down in extreme northwestern Howard County, Maryland, approximately 1 mile south of Interstate 70/US-40/Baltimore National Pike at 8:19 PM EDT. Several wooden power poles were snapped along Penn Shop Road just east of MD-27/Ridge Road, indicative of winds over 100 MPH. The path continued northeastward into Carroll County. |
| 00:20Z | EF2 | KLWX | MD | Carroll | Mt Airy | A tornado moved northeastward from Howard County and entered Carroll County around 8:20 PM EDT on the evening of November 2nd. Several trees were downed along Bennett Road. Numerous trees were downed in the Pheasant Ridge community just south of MD-144/Frederick Road, and several mobile homes were heavily damaged. Several power poles were snapped along MD-144/Frederick Road.||As the tornado crossed Interstate 70/US-40/Baltimore National Pike, numerous trees and branches were downed in the roadway and on vehicles, which appeared to have been pulled off the roadway by the winds. No injuries were reported.||The tornado proceeded to move into the retail area of Mt. Airy, where a canopy over the gas pumps at High's Dairy Store was partially torn off, and the TJ Maxx roof was lifted up and partially removed. There were also numerous trees snapped and uprooted in a convergent manner behind the shopping center to near the Mt. Airy water tower. In the immediate path, virtually no trees were left undamaged, indicative of winds over 100 MPH.||The tornado continued northward from this point, where several outbuildings at the Knills Farm Market just east of MD-27/Ridge Road were severely damaged or completely destroyed, including a metal silo which twisted and collapsed. Nearby along Watersville Road, several more power poles were snapped purely from wind (not from trees falling on power lines). On either side of the farm, virtually all trees in the tornado's path were downed in a convergent manner, including at a residence along Watersville Road, with some showing signs of bark being stripped by the wind. This was one area where maximum winds are estimated to have been near 120 mph.||The tornado continued northeastward, with several residences experiencing shingle and roof damage/removal along Arrowwood Circle, and downed numerous trees and power lines, consistent with winds around 90 MPH.||Numerous hardwood trees, virtually all in the tornado's path, were snapped with signs of stripped bark along the 6000 block of Runkles Road. At Snell's Greenhouses, water was completely removed from a pond, and several greenhouses were destroyed. A nearby home weather station in the tornado's path just to the northeast measured a wind gust of 112 mph. Based on this, it is likely the tornado's maximum winds again approached 120 mph in this area. This occurred at around 825 PM EDT, when the FAA's Terminal Doppler Weather Radar near Washington Dulles International Airport showed it's strongest rotational signature.||The last evidence of tornadic damage was observed on Gillis Falls Road where a few trees were uprooted in convergent fashion just east of Runkles Road. Radar imagery from the FAA's Terminal Doppler Weather Radar near Washington Dulles International Airport showed the tornadic velocity couplet dissipate just north of Gillis Ford Road at about 826 PM EDT.||The damage estimate was provided by Carroll County Emergency Management. |
| 01:42Z | EF1 | KLWX | MD | Baltimore City (c) | Penn Mary Jct | A tornado touched down in Baltimore City at about 9:42 PM EDT on Friday evening, November 2, 2018. Initial damage was to a tractor trailer which was blown over on Interstate 95 just north of the Fort McHenry Tunnel. A few trees were topped just west of the interstate, and a fence line blew over on South Newkirk Street just to the east. This damage is consistent with winds of about 70 MPH.||The tornado tracked generally eastward roughly parallel to Holabird Avenue. It blew in large garage doors on both side of the building at Flexi-Van Leasing facility, consistent with wind speeds over 90 MPH.||As it continued eastward, it impacted the north building of the Amazon sorting facility, reaching a peak intensity of around 105 MPH. It blew the roof off a portion of the building, including iron rafters. With the loss of the roof, the eight inch concrete wall panels pushed in and collapsed into the building towards the north end of the west wall. Two fatalities occurred inside the building with the wall collapse. About a dozen truck trailers were pushed over, moved, or rolled by the wind. Two of the trailers were noted to have been blown in an opposite direction of the wind that toppled the wall. Several light stanchions and signs were blown over, and several car windows were blown out by flying debris. Radar data from the FAA's Terminal Doppler Weather Radar near Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport indicated this was around 9:43 PM EDT, and this is when the strongest velocity signature was noted.||The tornado continued east along the south side of Holabird Avenue, uprooting several large trees, and snapping dozens of large branches, consistent with winds of about 80 MPH.||Damage along the entire path was mainly convergent, and while much of the damage was from west-southwest to east-northeast, there were several notable exceptions of damage in differing directions. An eyewitness fire fighter outside the Baltimore City Fire Department Engine 50 firehouse in the area saw the swirling debris and funnel cloud as it passed. The tornado lifted as it reached the intersection with Dundalk Avenue, which according to radar would have been at about 9:44 PM EDT. |
| 01:44Z | EF1 | KLWX | MD | Baltimore | St Helena | A tornado tracked eastward from Baltimore City into southern Baltimore County near the city of Dundalk, around 9:44 PM EDT. After it initially lifted, the tornado briefly touched down one last time at the Holabird East Apartments on 4 Georges Court in Dundalk. The two adjoined northeast buildings in the complex sustained significant roofing damage, with a large portion of the roof decking removed from the windward side. The building was deemed uninhabitable displacing 42 people. The strong southwest wind hit the building broadside causing the damage. No other damage was noted in the area. A resident reported swirling winds with the event. One resident in the building was treated for cuts. This was the last area of damage, and the tornado signature on radar weakened after this point just after 9:45 PM EDT. The monetary damage is an estimate provided by the county emergency management office. |
Storm reports are derived from "The Storm Events Database" (National Centers for Environmental Information) and/or "Past Storm Reports" (Storm Prediction Center).