Tornado, Baltimore
- When
- July 19, 2:55 PM EST to 2:56 PM EST
- Where
- Baltimore County, Tyler
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Crop damage
- $5,000
- Coordinates
- 39.430, -76.850
Tornado in Maryland, July 19, 1996
The rapidly moving supercell which spawned the earlier F3 tornado in southeastern Carroll Co dropped a short-track twister 3 miles southwest of Reisterstown at the intersection of Deer Park road and Berrymans Lane. Six homes had minor exterior damage.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Crop damage
- $5,000
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS LWX wrote it up.
The rapidly moving supercell which spawned the earlier F3 tornado in southeastern Carroll Co dropped a short-track twister 3 miles southwest of Reisterstown at the intersection of Deer Park road and Berrymans Lane. Six homes had minor exterior damage. Most of the damage was to trees.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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More
Every storm in Maryland in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Maryland, 1996Warnings in Maryland, July 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5568219.