Tuesday Storms Cause Cancellations, Outages, Flooding

Severe weather in Maryland on Tuesday brought rain, a brief tornado warning, thousands of power outages and wind gusts in some places up to 60 miles per hour.

Overall, it appears this storm left Maryland relatively unscathed with minor damage reported across the state. Annapolis Patch reported coastal flooding caused City Dock to start taking on water even before the rains hit.

BGE officials said in a news release that the company had restored power to nearly 7,000 customers as of 5 p.m. Tuesday, but warned that additional outages are possible with storms expected to continue through Tuesday evening and early Wednesday.

Just after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, about 5,600 BGE customers across the state were without power. There were about 1,300 customers still out of power in Anne Arundel County with power restored to more than 8,300.

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The National Weather Service (NWS) placed a tornado watch through much of Maryland during the day Tuesday, but lifted it Tuesday evening.

A tornado warning was issued briefly for Northern Prince George’s County Tuesday afternoon, reported Greenbelt Patch, but NWS data shows no known tornadoes that touched down Tuesday. 

Severe weather also caused several inconveniences Tuesday.

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