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UPDATE (6/13): NWS has added more confirmed tornado hits for a total of thirteen including EF-0s at Carroll County Airport, MD, Kearyneysville, WV, Shepherdtown, WV & Baltimore, MD’s Canton neighborhood. An unknown intensity tornado has been confirmed for Boonesboro, MD.
Additionally, the previously reported central Montgomery County, MD tornado has been reclassified as separate Poolesville and Gaithersburg, MD EF-1 tornadoes. The Gaithersburg tornado caused the five injuries originally noted. The intensity estimate for the Eldersburg, MD tornado was also raised to an EF-1.
The original post from June 6 is reprinted below.
The National Weather Service’s Baltimore/Washington office officially confirmed that at least seven tornadoes struck the Baltimore/Washington region Wednesday, June 5, 2024, most of which were measured as EF-1 intensity. Four survey teams had been sent out across Maryland, northern Virginia & eastern West Virginia to evaluate the damage.
The most significant tornado hit in the Washington, DC metro area Wednesday was in central Montgomery County, Maryland where an EF-1 tornado with peak winds of 105 mph traveled from Poolesville to Ashton, injuring five people in Gaithersburg. Another EF-1 tornado struck earlier that evening north of Leesburg in Loudoun County, Virginia.
Additional tornado hits Wednesday included an EF-0 (the minimum possible intensity) in Inwood, WV, an EF-1 in Columbia, MD, an EF-1 in Arbutus, MD, an EF-1 in Middle River, MD & an EF-0 in Eldersburg, MD, none of which caused injuries or fatalities. NWS may add more tornadoes to its official count based on further incoming information.