April 27-28, 2011 Severe Weather

Areas of Dangerous Heat and Heavy Rain with Possible Flooding into this Weekend

Hot temperatures and high humidity are forecast to continue across much of northeast Texas into the mid-Mississippi Valley into this weekend with heat advisories in effect. Heavy to excessive rainfall occurring at times through Saturday could bring areas of flooding across parts of the central Plains into the upper Midwest/Great Lakes, and Four Corners states. Read More >

...EF-0 TORNADO CONFIRMED NEAR HEREFORD MARYLAND... LOCATION...NORTHERN BALTIMORE COUNTY...2 MILES WEST-NW OF HEREFORD DATE...APRIL 28 2011 ESTIMATED TIME...9:54 AM TO 9:54 AM EDT MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF-0 MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...70 MPH MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH...75 YARDS LENGTH...0.1 MILES BEGINNING LAT/LON...39.598N / 76.705W ENDING LAT/LON...39.599N / 76.704W * 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... BASED UPON RESULTS FROM AN AERIAL SURVEY CONDUCTED BY BALTIMORE COUNTY...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETERMINED AN EF-0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN BRIEFLY JUST NORTH OF EVNA ROAD IN A HEAVILY WOODED AREA. DAMAGE WAS LIMITED TO TREES...NO STRUCTURES WERE IMPACTED. THE TORNADO SNAPPED AND UPROOTED ABOUT TWO DOZEN TREES AND DOWNED LARGE BRANCHES. THE TORNADO DAMAGE HAS BEEN RATED EF-0 WITH MAX WINDS OF 75 MPH...PATH WIDTH OF 75 YARDS AND WAS ON THE GROUND FOR NO MORE THAN ONE MINUTE.