Funnel Cloud Spotted During Saturday's Storm
A few hundred homes in the Broadneck and Annapolis areas were without power after a 20 minute thunderstorm blew through the area on Saturday afternoon.
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A funnel cloud was reported to the National Weather Service during a thunderstorm Saturday afternoon, but confirmation has yet to come.
A representative from the National Weather Service's Baltimore office said they have had reports of a funnel cloud seen near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge at about 4:40 p.m., but until an official damage estimate is done, they could not confirm or deny that a tornado had touched down in the vicinity.
A few hundred homes in the Broadneck and Annapolis areas were without power after a 20 minute thunderstorm blew through the area on Saturday afternoon.
The storm came with high winds at about 4:30 p.m., knocking tree branches into roads, and cutting power to several homes. An exact estimate is not known at this time, but according to BGE's outages report, there appear to be at least a few hundred currently without power.
If you have an outage, or have seen downed power lines, you can contact BGE at 1-877-778-2222.
Michael Ney
8:21 pm on Saturday, September 8, 2012
Video (poor quality) of rotation near Baltimore Lighthouse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7cGJRCcFX8
CJ
6:39 am on Monday, September 10, 2012
Saw this video-- and another photo of the spout near the lighthouse. We own the light-- and were nervous to see what things might look like when we got out to check after the storm passed!. No damage but sort of wish we had been on board for the storm now! Thanks for the video!
D. Frank Smith
8:39 pm on Saturday, September 8, 2012
Wow...! Thanks for the video. Good thing that didn't move onto land.
Michael Ney
9:14 pm on Saturday, September 8, 2012
Actually, it looked like it crossed Mountain Point (Gibson Island) somewhere near the Gazebo - see the photo I attached to this article from just before it crossed.