Tornadoes reported in Northern Virginia and Maryland

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AccuWeather was forecasting live during multiple tornado warnings in Maryland and Virginia on the evening of June 5.

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00:00 We did see a possible tornado in Leesburg, Virginia not that long ago.

00:03 Oh look at this. You can see some, you can clearly see the clouds moving there,

00:09 Jeff. Very fast. Maybe you can see some rotation there, but look at areas closer to Baltimore.

00:16 We've had a few confirmed tornadoes as well. And we do have still a new confirmed tornado.

00:21 Storm spotters indicating there's a particularly dangerous situation here over Germantown.

00:26 So a PDS warning, a damaging tornado over Germantown, Maryland right now. This is a

00:32 particularly dangerous situation tornado warning, which is the more heightened type

00:35 of tornado warning. One step down from a true tornado emergency. It is an emergency if you're

00:41 in the area. I'm going to switch over to the correlation coefficient briefly. And you can

00:45 see a blue zone here. And again, there's a lot of, this is a very chaotic piece of data,

00:50 but that blue zone that I circled there, keying into that, that's where the radar data is

00:54 indicating that basically the radar is bouncing off of things of many different sizes and different

01:00 shapes. So that correlates perfectly, unfortunately, with the core of this couplet here.

01:06 And that's where we're dealing with strong rotation. So we're looking at debris that

01:09 was lofted up into the sky. And we're looking very close to the radar site here, a distance

01:14 of only about 13, 14 miles northeast of the Sterling, Virginia radar site. So it's being

01:20 sampled very well. We've got some good sets of eyeglasses on this one. And unfortunately,

01:25 we are dealing with a particularly dangerous situation tornado warning. So the red is

01:30 outbound, the green is inbound. And you can see with this overall flow, how there is some

01:35 strong rotation in this area over the area near ancient North Oak and into Long Drift.

01:40 I zoomed in so tight that we're just seeing small town names and mainly neighborhood names come up.

01:46 So we're looking at areas right over Gaithersburg that's going to be next up here and parts

01:51 of Germantown into Maryland here facing that ongoing tornado threat, a legitimate tornado

01:57 threat. You can see a confirmed tornado warning in effect here for Montgomery County, Maryland.

02:01 And that runs until 8/15. I'm going to pull this down just so it doesn't compete with the

02:05 banner at the top of the graphic. So a confirmed tornado in the Baltimore and D.C. Metro. Look

02:12 out in Gaithersburg and also into the area of, again, Germantown. New tornado warning also to

02:21 the north now. Thank you, Casey. They just keep on coming here. So north central parts of Carroll

02:25 County. That's a radar indicated zone of rotation here up near Westminster. And this one, again,

02:32 we have outbound and some inbound. So there is that conflict in the overall flow of this storm.

02:39 And you can see these bits of video here. The cloud bases are so low that it will take less.

02:46 It will require less circulation in the atmosphere to translate an area of rotation down to the

02:51 ground. We can get a more easily produced funnel that becomes a true tornado with the dew point so

02:56 high and with the moisture in the atmosphere so abundant here in the low levels of the atmosphere.

03:01 Another zone here, again, red against green in the area of northeastern Baltimore County. This

03:07 warning is radar indicated here, northeastern Baltimore County into southwestern Harford County.

03:12 That runs until 745. But our main concern remains this confirmed tornado moving right through

03:18 Germantown, Maryland and into Gaithersburg. Very populated areas here in the Baltimore and D.C.

03:24 Metro. And overall, if you're in any of these areas here, that area of rotation near Bridalwood

03:29 and Diamond Farms is a big, big concern. Reports of a true tornado there. And again,

03:36 the green is where we have movement in toward the radar site and the red is outbound. So again,

03:42 as I dial this in here, I'm trying to zoom in, not draw off here. The red is outbound and the

03:46 green is inbound. So this likely area of rotation is right over Bridalwood to Longdraft, those

03:52 neighborhoods within the area of Germantown, Maryland. And moving into the Gaithersburg area

03:58 next. So if you're in Gaithersburg, take shelter. If you're anywhere in central parts of Montgomery

04:04 County, Maryland, take shelter. And then to the eastern part of the county here, all the way up

04:09 to the area getting closer to Columbia and closer to the area near Ashton, you are also under this

04:17 confirmed tornado warning because this storm has very strong circulation here. And we are dealing

04:22 with areas about 100,000 people under this tornado warning. And it's a confirmed tornado

04:28 warning right now into the area near Baltimore and D.C. So between those two, again, we're looking

04:34 at Germantown, Maryland and Gaithersburg, two very large suburbs here. And I'm just going to draw the

04:38 area of rotation one more time here before we check out some other storms. Red is outbound

04:43 movement away from the radar site and green is the opposite of that. And you can see with the

04:47 overall conflict there, the area of rotation is going to be very close to Pleasant Run, the Diamond

04:53 Farms neighborhood, Bridlewood, Park Ridge, Bennington. Some of these are communities and

04:57 neighborhoods within the Germantown and Gaithersburg area with a large area under this tornado warning,

05:03 about 100,000 people here in the area of Montgomery County, Maryland.

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