April 27-28, 2011 Severe Weather

Powerful Pacific System Impacting the West; First Significant Snow for Portions of the East

Power Pacific system will continue to bring significant impacts for Pacific Northwest into northern California the remainder of the week. Dangerous coastal affects, heavy rain, flooding, strong winds, and higher elevation mountain snow continues. Meanwhile, a storm across the east is set to bring the first accumulating snow to many higher elevations of the Catskills into the central Appalachians. Read More >

...EF-0 TORNADO CONFIRMED NEAR POOLESVILLE MARYLAND... LOCATION...NORTH OF POOLESVILLE IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY MD DATE...APRIL 28 2011 ESTIMATED TIME...6:45 AM TO 6:47 AM EDT MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF-0 MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...65 MPH MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH...50 YARDS LENGTH...0.8 MILES BEGINNING LAT/LON...39.152N / 77.420W ENDING LAT/LON...39.158N / 77.408W * FATALITIES...NONE * INJURIES...NONE * THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT/S/ AND PUBLICATION IN NWS STORM DATA. ...SUMMARY... A SHORT DAMAGE PATH NORTH OF POOLESVILLE MARYLAND WAS DETERMINED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GROUND SURVEY. SPOTTY TREE DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED ALONG THE TRACK ON BEALLSVILLE ROAD...ELGIN ROAD AND JERUSALEM ROAD. A TRAMPOLINE WAS LOFTED AND DEPOSITED ATOP A POWER POLE...WITH ADJACENT DAMAGE TO A FENCE AND SMALL TREE.