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Large hail is a rare event in ANY given location. You're biased because it's your backyard. Think about why the SPC probabilities are "within 25 miles of a point" The probs are never "damaging wind at your exact location" Even factoring in the city boundaries, it is not a lot of geographical space.

Might have been a gustnado

Burping TORs?

Certainly, looked like one.

Wow, yeah, I think that spike coming off the cell at the 4 o clock position is a classic indicator of very large hail.

Rain train setting up south thankfully. Uncongrats @ineedsnow

Pretty sure you'll miss out. I'm expecting big ass raindrops with 0.5 in.... Then again, may get screwed entirely.

were there any signs of a tornado signature at that time? I couldn't track earlier. Looks like a minor spin-up but nice catch

Can’t believe Wizzy caught a Tor . Fantastic work kid

I wish I was able to go down the entire road to see where the damage began but it was closed off. The purple dot was where I was and the red circle is where there were pines down. The arrow shows the track. The blue circle is where the road was closed...I could see something on fire so it had started at least a good 1/2 mile up the road...but not sure what it was like going farther down

look at the radar from that time it was definitely a weak tornado

ya he needs to send that in.. Radar was matching up pretty well at that time with some rotation.. he was literally in the perfect spot!

Yeah, thunderstorm lines seem to max out around here. Baltimore city gets some pretty good action too.

We’re about a mile south of that lightning bolt under the reversed U of the Pile. The bow or whatever was certainly flexed to the max here.

I still get torn because it happened just as the gust front is going through but it had to be just behind the gust front because precip had started. I'll have to pull back radar archives.

A welcome 0.3 so far from getting scraped by the southern edge of two cells so far. Hoping for a flush hit at some point. Had one super-close lightning strike, had to have been within a couple hundred feet

Some training setting up along 84?

That looks like a spin up?! Regardless of gustnado or tornado, a great capture.

Come to think of it that area from Baltimore to Philadelphia always seems to be a hot bed for some of our more impressive severe storms so the bay boundary definitely makes a ton of sense.

@weatherwiz first EF0 woooooo hooooo!!!! no doubt that was tornado in front of you I watched it a few times..

Pleasant surprise on LI today. Mainly sunny

dude thats a Tornado!!!!!!!

Nice!

Right wrong or somewhere in between I'm gland it was brought up . It's cool to watch the different storm modes occurring within there observed environments.

I swear the bay pushes a mesoscale boundary just north of the city towards the top side of the Baltimore Beltway. I'm hoping that as we put more mesonet stations in, we can begin to better identify these small scale features that make severe weather forecasting so tricky.