DC Area Weather Warning.

[DCKit]

I'm watching weather radar for the DC area and there are 12 distinct areas of rotation to the west of Winchester, VA, evenly split to the north and south.

Keep your heads down folks.

[FSogol]

1. Geez enough already with the monsoons.

I had to buy a 2nd submersible pump to keep an areaway dry and my backyard is literally turning into a active stream.

[madinmaryland]

2. Thanks for the headsup!

Checked the radar and it looks like about an hour west of me.

:hi:

[latebloomer]

3. Oh great!

My daughter left for DC on a class trip this morning.

[Virginia Dare]

4. Great, it should hit the city right around rush hour..

:scared:

[DCKit]

5. It looks like 14 now.

Channel 9 is doing a tornado warning for areas west and north of DC.

They say the storm is moving ENE, so DC should be bypassed.

[lonestarnot]

6. Yikes! Be safe!

[LibertyLover]

16. Would that that were the case

but right now I'm sitting in my office on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, watching the rain bucketing down, the lightening and hearing the thunder. No tornados that I know of however.

[malaise]

7. Is Cheney in the basement yet?

Fingers crossed!!

[BeHereNow]

9. More likely his private bunker under the Naval Observatory.

http://www.davidcogswell.com/MediaRoulette/CheneysBunker.html
Wonder how much tax money was spent on that...
BHN

[DCKit]

8. Moving at 52 mph. Jeebus.

It's going to be over and past DC within the hour.

[electropop]

10. Great. Thanks for the warning.

I live in Sterling. Do ya think the drought's over?

[notesdev]

11. HOLY FREAKING COW!!!

It just blew in here... went from totally dry to severe intensity in 15 seconds... I was looking out the window, saw it blowing across the road right at me and rushed to close the windows just in time.

I haven't seen rain like this in a decade!

[rocktivity]

12. A DC Area storm warning?

You should know better than to feed US a straight line like that!!!

:rofl:
rocknation

[uppityperson]

13. current watches

This first link has a bunch of different maps, info, including where tornadoes, hail, high winds have been reported. Hover your cursor over the headings at top of map here: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/

[DCKit]

14. OK, wrong about DC.

I've never seen cloud rotation right overhead before, but we just got slammed. An entire high-rise rooftop of patio furniture just got blown off a building across the street.

The wind has lessened, but it's pouring buckets. Glad I brought my plants in.

There is no global warming.

[jpljr77]

15. Damnz...that was rough.

Anyone East of town, WATCH OUT. Lots of lightning, and some hail in Rockville.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

17. Good radar link...

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=LWX&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=yes

[shireen]

18. tornado warning in area btwn DC and Balt

from NWS:

Tornado Warning
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
336 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2008

MDC003-009-042000-
/O.CON.KLWX.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-080604T2000Z/
ANNE ARUNDEL MD-CALVERT MD-
336 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR CALVERT
AND ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTIES...

AT 333 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF TRACYS
LANDING...MOVING EAST AT 62 MPH.

LAT...LON 3882 7655 3876 7655 3876 7656 3876 7655
3871 7656 3876 7667 3880 7666 3885 7654
TIME...MOT...LOC 1936Z 275DEG 54KT 3877 7660

$$

ROGOWSKI

[shireen]

19. another tornado warning, strong rotation seen

Tornado Warning
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
334 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2008

MDC003-027-031-033-042000-
/O.CON.KLWX.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-080604T2000Z/
HOWARD MD-MONTGOMERY MD-ANNE ARUNDEL MD-PRINCE GEORGES MD-
334 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR ANNE
ARUNDEL...MONTGOMERY AND HOWARD AND PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY...

AT 333 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED STRONG ROTATION
LOCATED 3 MILES EAST OF BELTSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...VIOLENT WINDS AND POSSIBLY A
TORNADO. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE TAKE COVER ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3898 7691 3915 7698 3920 7676 3896 7671
3896 7672
TIME...MOT...LOC 1934Z 274DEG 37KT 3902 7683

$$

GMS

[ShortnFiery]

20. Thanks we're smack in the heart of "the mess."

:(

[uppityperson]

21. 3 tornadoes so far, VA/MD

#s are lat/lon
FALLS CHURCH CITY OF FALLS CHU, VA 3888 7717 TORNADO TOUCHDOWN REPORT AT ANNANDALE ROAD HUNTINGTOWN CALVERT, MD 3862 7661 TORNADO TOUCHDOWN -- PRELIMINARY
HUNTINGTON FAIRFAX, VA 3878 7707 TORNADO TOUCHDOWN

[notesdev]

22. PEPCO

... as usual, has outages everywhere. Maybe one day someone will bother to ask why they always have outages every time a storm comes, but the same never happens in Virginia.