A thunderstorm with high winds moved through Takoma Park around 6:30 AM on the 11th. The storm downed a large oak tree onto a home on Garland Avenue.
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A thunderstorm with high winds moved through Takoma Park around 6:30 AM on the 11th. The storm downed a large oak tree onto a home on Garland Avenue. Another large downed tree significantly damaged an apartment building.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 11, 3:30 AM EST, 3 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON 330 AM EST MON NOV 11 2002 SHORT TERM... VERY HIGH SHEAR CONVECTIVE ENVIRONMENT IN PLACE TNGT. HELICITY ON THE IAD SOUNDING WAS CLOSE TO 500 J/KG. INSTABILITY HOWEVER CONTINUES TO BE VERY LOW. WL HAVE TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR SVR THREAT TODAY. VERY STRONG SW FLOW ALOFT WL BE OVR RGN THRU TONGT. FRONT WL MOV SLOWLY ACRS FA TODAY CONTINUING SHRAS/TSRAS. SOME MODELS DIFFERENCES CONTINUE AND WILL COMPERMISE BETWEEN SOLNS...DRY OUT WRN ZONES TONGT AND EAST LATE TONIGHT. ONE LAST WARM DAY BEFORE BACK TO MORE SEASONAL TEMPS. WITH SUCH STRONG FLOW AND MIXING WL CONT SCA OVR MARINE AREAS. TUESDAY CAA SPREAD ACROSS THE REGION WITH NORTHERLY WINDS. HIGH TEMPS WILL NOT RISE MUCH ON TUESDAY AS CLOUDS INCREASE BACK ACROSS THE FA WITH A CHC OF SHRAS ONCE AGAIN. ND LONG TERM...TUE NGT THRU SUN... ONLY REAL CHG IN XTND IS TO TAPER BACK ON THE POPS FOR TUE NGT AND WED. AVN CONTINUES TO ADVRTZ THE LOW DVLPG ALONG THE FNTL BNDRY E OF ORF..AND THEN TRACK NE. OUR CWA WOULD BE IN A SECTOR OF NRLY WINDS...AND I FEEL PCPN AMTS WL BE LGT..IF AT ALL. COULD BE A SITUATION WHERE COUNTIES CLOSER TO THE CST GET THE RAIN AND WE ARE LEFT DRY. THE NEW MRF RESEMBLES THE AVN. SEE THAT THE FMR POPS ARE QUITE HIGH FOR WED. THINK THE MDL IS OVERDOING THE PCPN CVRG. HV CUT BACK ON PCPN LONGEVITY AND POPS. THIS IS ALSO MORE CLOSELY IN LN W/ WHAT OTHER FOS WERE FCSTG. PRES GRAD FAIRLY TIGHT IN ERN SXNS COULD PRODUCE BRZY CONDITIONS ALONG BAY WED NGT AS LOW PULLS AWAY. AFTER LOW PULLS AWAY AREA IS UNDER FAIRLY NONDESCRIPT ZNL FLOW THU AND FRI. AS WAS THE CASE LAST NGT AM RESERVING JUDGEMENT ON THE FATE OF THE NEXT UPR TROF/CSTL SFC LOW MRF IS PROJECTING FOR NEXT WKND. LATER SHIFTS CAN PONDER THAT AS THESE DAYS DRAW NEAR. WOODY .LWX... DC...NONE. MD...NONE. VA...NONE. WV...NONE. MARINE...SCA IN EFFECT FOR POTOMAC AND BAY.
DCZ001-MDZ002>007-009>011-013-014-016>018-VAZ021-025>031-036>042- 050>057-WVZ048>055-111545- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON 503 AM EST MON NOV 11 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MARYLAND WEST OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND EAST OF GARRETT COUNTY...THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA...NORTHERN VIRGINIA...THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SHENANDOAH VALLEY...AND THE EASTERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS MORNING FROM CARROLL COUNTY MARYLAND TO SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA...EASTWARD TO THE CHESAPEAKE BAY. AT THIS TIME A COLD FRONT STRETCHES FROM THE OHIO-PENNSYLVANIA BORDER SOUTH INTO EASTERN TENNESSEE. AHEAD OF THE LINE THERE ARE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS REACHING ALL THE WAY TO THE GULF COAST. THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN FAST MOVING...AND CREATED WIND DAMAGE IN THEIR PATH. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH ARE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE ACTIVATED THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ABW
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:28 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Large trees were downed onto a house and an apartment building in Takoma Park.
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