EF-0 tornado confirmed in Baltimore City, Dundalk after Monday storms

MARYLAND (WBFF) — The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed that an EF-0 tornado touched ground during Monday’s storms, traveling from the Port of Baltimore to Dundalk.

Officials reported that a line of severe storms interacted with a bay breeze, resulting in a brief waterspout on the Patapsco River.

This waterspout then transformed into a tornado near the Seagirt Marine Terminal in the Port of Baltimore and Dundalk.

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The tornado had an estimated peak wind speed of 65 mph, with a path width of 90 yards and a length of two miles.

The NWS reported that it began at the Port of Baltimore at 4:39 p.m. and traveled to Dundalk, where it dissipated around 4:45 p.m. on August 10.

The NWS gathered video footage from the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center that captured a brief circulation, likely from a waterspout, over the Patapsco River as it moved toward the Seagirt Marine Terminal.

Once onshore, officials reported that the waterspout intensified into a tornado, continuing toward Broening Highway.

This tornado uprooted a large hardwood tree and snapped another in the process.

As it crossed Colgate Creek, the tornado snapped a power pole along Ralls Avenue, just east of the creek.

It then tracked east-northeast, displacing a vehicle near Sollers Point Road in Dundalk.

In this area, a tree was uprooted and an awning was torn off an apartment before the tornado dissipated, according to the NWS.

The Federal Aviation Administration’s Terminal Doppler Weather Radar for Thurgood Marshall BWI Airport indicated a tornadic signature along the tornado’s path, confirming the reported damage.