EASTPORT, MD—The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down in Maryland during Thursday’s severe storms.
Forecasters say a waterspout formed over Spa Creek at approximately 2:45 p.m. on July 31, passed briefly as an EF-0 tornado over the Severn Sailing Association Marina at the northernmost point of Eastport, and then proceeded back over the mouth of the Severn River as a waterspout.
NWS says an individual at the Severn Sailing Association Marina provided a video of a waterspout between Eastport and the U.S. Naval Academy, over Spa Creek. The waterspout moved into the shoreline at the marina. The eyewitness saw the waterspout move ashore and over the marina. They documented a few trailered and stored small boats that were blown over by the wind in the parking area.
The circulation moved quickly back over water over the mouth of the Severn River where additional social media video showed it as viewed from near the Route 450 bridge. Doppler radar operating nearby in northern Anne Arundel County showed the circulation intensify briefly along this track, moving west to east. It dissipated before reaching land on the other side of the Severn River, and no other damage has been reported.
Additional information is available in the NWS graphic below.
