...EF-0 TORNADO CONFIRMED FROM FORT MEADE TO BWI AIRPORT...

LOCATION...NORTHWESTERN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY MD
DATE...JUNE 1 2012 
ESTIMATED TIME...7:06 PM TO 7:22 PM EDT 
MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF-0
MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...80 MPH 
MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH...100 YARDS
LENGTH...6.4 MILES
BEGINNING LAT/LON...39.098N / 76.744W 
ENDING LAT/LON...39.179N / 76.678W
* 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 TEAM FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONDUCTED A GROUND SURVEY OF 
DAMAGE FROM FORT MEADE TO BWI AIRPORT. BASED ON THIS SURVEY ALONG WITH 
RADAR DATA THE TEAM DETERMINED THAT AN EF-0 TORNADO OCCURRED IN 
NORTHWESTERN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY MARYLAND.

DAMAGE ENCOUNTERED ALONG THE CIRCULATION PATH WAS PRIMARILY TO 
TREES...CONSISTING OF UPROOTED AND SNAPPED TREES AND LIMBS. THE 
TORNADO DEVELOPED JUST SOUTH OF FORT MEADE AND CAUSED DAMAGE PRIMARILY 
TO TREES ON AND ADJACENT TO THE PROPERTY.  A PARKING GATE ALSO WAS 
BENT BY THE WIND.

MINOR DAMAGE WAS NOTED TO EAVES AND SIDING AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX 
ALONG DISNEY ROAD...WHERE TREE DAMAGE ALSO WAS FOUND.  DAMAGE TO TREES 
WAS ENCOUNTERED ALONG CARRIAGE DRIVE...GOLDEN PINE CIRCLE AND GESNA 
ROAD...AND TO TREES AND HOUSE SIDING ALONG FAIRBANKS DRIVE. A SUN ROOM 
ON ONE HOUSE IN THIS AREA SUFFERED UPLIFT OF A PORTION OF ITS ROOF...
BUT THIS UPLIFT APPEARS TO BE THE RESULT IN LARGE PART OF CHANNELED 
WIND.

THE TORNADO THEN WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY AS IT CROSSED MD-170 AND 
ENTERED THE PROPERTY OF BWI THURGOOD MARSHALL AIRPORT...WHERE THE 
DECAYING TORNADO WAS OBSERVED BY TOWER PERSONNEL AND AIRPORT PATRONS 
CROSSING THE WESTERN PORTION OF A RUNWAY. A SURVEY OF THE AIRPORT 
PROPERTY FOUND NO DAMAGE. THE TORNADO LIFTED AS IT MOVED NORTH OF THE 
AIRPORT.

ALL DAMAGE SURVEYED WAS CONSISTENT WITH WINDS OF EF-0 MAGNITUDE UP TO 
80 MPH.