Dust Devil, Montgomery
- When
- August 5, 2:45 PM EST
- Where
- Montgomery forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
Trees, outdoor playset, and iron fence damaged
Dust Devil in Maryland, August 5, 1999
A dust devil, or landspout, developed from fair weather clouds around 3:45 PM EDT on a 4 acre homestead outside of Laytonsville. As it moved across an acre of the property, it broke tree spikes and bent the trees the spikes were supporting.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- 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.
A dust devil, or landspout, developed from fair weather clouds around 3:45 PM EDT on a 4 acre homestead outside of Laytonsville. As it moved across an acre of the property, it broke tree spikes and bent the trees the spikes were supporting. It also lifted a large outdoor swingset and threw it into an iron fence. The fence was broken and the swingset sustained moderate damage, resulting in $5000 in losses.
Event by event
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Dust Devil
- A small rotating column of dust from surface heating that caused damage or injury.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Lightning Strike in Arizona, August 5, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, August 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, August 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Connecticut, August 5, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, August 5, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Washington, August 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, August 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Connecticut, August 5, 1999
- Waterspouts in Pennsylvania, August 5 to 21, 1999
More
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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: 5718882.