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Flood — Baltimore City (c), MD

Jul 30, 1998

An isolated rotating thunderstorm moved out of the eastern West Virginia panhandle and into north central Maryland, producing some wind damage during the evening. Other storms developed later in the evening, including another very small supercell which dropped a brief tornado along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. The storms formed at the juxtaposition of a weak surface low pressure area along a stationary front parked over north central Maryland.Some large limbs and numerous wires wer

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5663061). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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