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June 4, 2008 Severe Weather
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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
740 PM EDT THU JUN 5 2008
...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAMAGE SURVEY TEAM PRELIMINARY
ASSESSMENTS OF JUNE 4 EXTREME WEATHER EVENT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON WEATHER FORECAST
OFFICE STORM DAMAGE SURVEY TEAMS SURVEYED DAMAGE IN SEVERAL
LOCATIONS TODAY. VERY STRONG STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AFFECTED MOST OF
CENTRAL AND NORTHERN VIRGINIA...MARYLAND WEST OF THE BAY...THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND THE EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA PANHANDLE. SURVEY
TEAMS DETERMINED THAT TORNADOES OCCURRED IN CALVERT COUNTY
MARYLAND...AND CLARKE...CULPEPER AND STAFFORD COUNTIES IN VIRGINIA.
IN WASHINGTON COUNTY...THE TEAM EXAMINED WIND DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES
AND TREES IN AN AREA FROM SHARPSBURG TO KEEDYSVILLE TO BOONSBORO. A
FEW OUTBUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED AND EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE WAS
OBSERVED. SOME HOMES SUSTAINED WIND DAMAGE TO THEIR ROOF STRUCTURES
AND ONE GARAGE WAS DAMAGED. SOME OF THE DAMAGE TO A BARN...AND ONE
AREA OF WIND DAMAGE TO TREES BETWEEN SHARPSBURG AND KEEDYSVILLE WAS
SEVERE. MANY HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD TREES WERE SNAPPED OFF AT THE
TRUNK. ALL OF THE DAMAGE WAS ALIGNED ALONG THE DIRECTION OF THE WIND
GUSTS AND ALL OF THIS WIND DAMAGE WAS DETERMINED TO BE CAUSED BY
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. VERY STRONG WIND GUSTS TO 100 MPH ARE ESTIMATED
BASED ON THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE STORMS.
IN JEFFERSON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA...DAMAGE AROUND RANSON...CHARLES
TOWN AND KABLETOWN WAS EXAMINED. SOME MINOR STRUCTURAL WIND DAMAGE
WAS OBSERVED IN THE LEETOWN AREA ALONG WITH LARGE NUMBERS OF DOWNED
AND UPROOTED TREES. OTHER WIND DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED IN RANSON...
MAINLY TO TREES...BUT ALSO SOME SIDING DAMAGE. OTHER WIND DAMAGE WAS
OBSERVED NEAR KABLETOWN...MAINLY TO TREES AND OUTBUILDINGS LEADING
TO SOME LOSS OF LIVESTOCK. WIND DAMAGE THROUGHOUT JEFFERSON COUNTY
PREDOMINANTLY WAS CONSISTENT WITH STRAIGHT LINE WINDS WITH SPEEDS OF
70 TO 80 MPH. A FEW AREAS OF MORE INTENSE WIND DAMAGE CONSISTENT
WITH WINDS OF 80 TO 90 MPH OCCURED WITH SIGNS AND A TOWER KNOCKED
OVER. AN 85 MPH WIND GUST WAS MEASURED BY AN AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR
NEAR HALLTOWN WV AT 323 PM.
IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY MARYLAND...A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SURVEY
TEAM EXAMINED WIND DAMAGE IN THE BELLEVIEW ESTATES SECTION OF
SEVERNA PARK. LARGE NUMBERS OF HARDWOOD TREES...SOME UP TO 4 FEET IN
DIAMETER...WERE UPROOTED WITH SEVERAL FALLING INTO SINGLE FAMILY
RESIDENCES CAUSING DAMAGE. THE TREE DAMAGE AND TREE FALL PATTERN
WAS INDICATIVE OF STRAIGHT LINE WINDS WITH SPEEDS OF 70 TO 80 MPH.
IN CALVERT COUNTY MARYLAND...A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SURVEY TEAM
DETERMINED THAT AN EF-0 TORNADO IMPACTED PORTIONS OF CHESAPEAKE
BEACH ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT APPROXIMATELY 340 PM. APPROXIMATELY
A DOZEN HARDWOOD TREES IN THE RICHFIELD STATION AREA OF CHESAPEAKE
BEACH WERE UPROOTED. ONE SINGLE FAMILY HOME HAD A 3 FOOT DIAMETER
TULIP POPLAR TREE FALL THROUGH THE ROOF. PORTIONS OF ROOFS AND
SIDING WERE TORN AWAY FROM 10-20 SINGLE FAMILY HOMES. TREE AND ROOF
DAMAGE ALSO OCCURRED IN THE BAYVIEW HILLS AREA OF CHESAPEAKE BEACH.
IN THIS LOCATION...SIDING DAMAGE ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SINGLE FAMILY
HOMES WAS OBSERVED. A FREE STANDING LIGHT POLE IN LYNWOOD T. KELLAM
MEMORIAL RECREATIONAL PARK WAS BENT. THE ENTIRE ROOF DECKING OF A
RESTAURANT ON BAYSIDE ROAD WAS BLOWN AWAY. THE DAMAGE IS INDICATED
AS A HIGH END EF-0 TORNADO...WITH WIND GUSTS ESTIMATED AT 85 MPH.
THE DAMAGE PATH OF THE TORNADO WAS APPROXIMATELY 1.5 MILES LONG...
AND 75 YARDS WIDE.
IN PAGE COUNTY VIRGINIA...AN AREAL SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED OF THE TOWN
OF LURAY IN PAGE COUNTY IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA. AN
INTERMITTENT PATH OF DAMAGE ABOUT 3 MILES LONG WAS CAUSED BY
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS FROM THUNDERSTORM MICROBURSTS. NUMEROUS TREES
WERE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONE HOME HAD ITS TIN ROOF AND CHIMNEY
BLOWN OFF. NUMEROUS BARNS AND OUTBUILDINGS WERE EITHER DAMAGED OR
DESTROYED. ONE MOBILE HOME WAS DAMAGED. 8 PARKED VEHICLES HAD THEIR
WINDOWS BLOWN OUT BY WIND BLOWN ROCKS. MANY POWER LINES WERE DOWNED.
THE STRONGEST WIND IN THE LURAY EVENT DESTROYED A LARGE WELL
CONSTRUCTED 30X40 FOOT BARN. THE MAXIMUM WIND WAS ESTIMATED TO BE 90
MPH. TOTAL STRUCTURAL DAMAGE BY LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WAS
ESTIMATED TO BE AROUND $237,000.
IN FREDERICK COUNTY VIRGINIA...AN AREAL SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED OF
NORTHERN FREDERICK COUNTY VIRGINIA JUST NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF
WINCHESTER. THE SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF GAINESBORO
AND GORE. A NEARLY CONTINUOUS PATH OF DAMAGE ABOUT 5 MILES LONG
ALONG STONY HILL ROAD WAS DETERMINED TO BE CAUSED BY STRAIGHT LINE
WINDS FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. MAXIMUM WINDS WERE ESTIMATED TO BE
100 MPH. DOZENS OF TREES WERE UPROOTED OR SNAPPED. WINDOWS WERE
BLOWN OUT OF A FEW VEHICLES AND HOMES. A LARGE TOWER WAS TOPPLED.
SEVERAL HOMES WERE DAMAGED BY DOWNED TREES. A LARGE POWER CORRIDOR
LINE WAS BROKEN. TOTAL STRUCTURAL DAMAGE WAS NOT KNOWN BY THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT THIS TIME.
IN CLARKE COUNTY VIRGINIA...AN AREAL SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED OVER
EASTERN CLARKE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. A SEVERE STORM
CREATED AN INTERMITTENT PATH OF DAMAGE FROM THE TOWN OF MILLWOOD
EAST NORTHEAST TO WHERE ROUTE 7 CROSSES THE BLUE RIDGE AROUND THE
SHENANDOAH RETREAT AREA. THE DAMAGE WAS MOST CONSISTENT AROUND THE
TOWN OF MILLWOOD. AT LEAST 12 HOMES IN THAT AREA WERE DAMAGED...
CONSISTING OF TREES INTO HOUSES... SIDING... AND ROOFING DAMAGE. THE
MAJORITY OF THE DAMAGE IN EASTERN CLARKE COUNTY WAS CAUSED BY
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS OF 80 TO 90 MPH FROM MICROBURSTS PRODUCED BY THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. TREES WERE MAINLY ALL LAID OUT PARALLEL TO THE
PATH OF THE STORM. HOWEVER...A SMALL EF-1 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN
AMONGST THE POCKETS OF STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE. NEAR THE CARTER
HALL AREA OF MILLWOOD... NEARLY ALL OF THE LARGE TREES IN ONE STRAND
WERE UPROOTED OR SNAPPED AND FELL IN NEARLY EVERY DIRECTION. THE
TORNADO HAD A PATH LENGTH OF A HALF MILE AND A WIDTH OF 100 YARDS.
MAXIMUM WIND SPEED WAS 90 MPH. TOTAL STRUCTURAL DAMAGE AT THIS TIME
IS ESTIMATED BY LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TO BE AROUND $44,000 IN
EASTERN CLARKE COUNTY.
ONE DAMAGE SURVEY TEAM IS STILL COMPLETING ITS WORK AT THIS TIME.
PRELIMINARILY IT APPEARS THAT THERE WAS A TORNADO IN CULPEPER COUNTY
AND ANOTHER TORNADO IN STAFFORD COUNTY. FURTHER DETAILS ON THE
STRENGTH...LENGTH AND WIDTH OF THESE TORNADOES WILL BE AVAILABLE
EITHER LATE THIS EVENING OR FRIDAY.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND OUR APPRECIATION
TO OUR SPOTTERS...THE CIVIL AIR PATROL...AND TO STATE AND COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE DURING AND AFTER
THIS EXTREME WEATHER EVENT.
$$
MANNING/STRONG/LEE/SMZ
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