6/13/07 DISC: VA / MD / DC

[Chris Hovanic]

http://hv20.info/yopu/Tornadosmall.mov

Video of a feature a buddy of mine took yesterday from the 17th floor of the NOAA building here in Silver Spring, MD...

This feature certainly looks like a tornado. Developed on the gust front of a line of storms moving south through the Washington DC area yesterday evening. Before the evolution into a line, a supercell west of Baltimore produced a confirmed EF-0 tornado, this storm consolidated with a few others to produce the line which moved through the DC area.

Looking at radar again seemed to suggest this possible tornado could have been associated with a developing 'break in the line'

Tornado? If not...what is it?

 

[Dan Robinson]

(This will probably end up being a DISC thread). Seems to be no doubt as to the identity there. Rapid rotation is pretty evident and the visual appearance leaves no question. Any chance a smaller encoding of the video could be made available? 113MB took quite a while to download for me. Great shot though - seems that being the location it was (densly populated) that there would be more photos and video of such a high-contrast tornado.

 

[Chris Hovanic]

I'll have to see if he can get the size a bit smaller...it was a brand new HD video camera, hence the large file size.

 

[Jeff Snyder]

Just as a reminder, only first-hand chase reports are allowed in REPORTS thread. All other post-event discussion, 3rd-party reports (e.g. media reports), comments, etc, should take place in a DISC thread (as Dan hinted at). Just a friendly reminder.

 

[Bill Hark]

It looks like a tornado. I don't see the rotation mentioned earlier. Being a populated area, I wonder if there was any damage or other video. Your friend may want to give a copy to the Sterling NWS office.

Bill Hark