Two Tornadoes Cause Widespread Damage Across Arlington, DC

VIRGINIA/DC — A strong thunderstorm produced a pair of tornadoes in Arlington and Washington, D.C., Thursday night, according to the National Weather Service.

After conducting damage surveys on Friday, the NWS confirmed that the two tornadoes touched down around 9 p.m. Thursday. One injury was reported in Arlington as a tree fell on a home.

The National Weather Service said widespread damage was reported in Arlington, with numerous trees, wires and poles blown down.

In the 4300 block of N. 16 Street, a few blocks north of Washington-Liberty High School, a large tree fell onto a house, trapping someone inside. An adult was rescued from the house and taken to an area hospital with minor injuries, Arlington Fire and EMS said Thursday night. Two other residents were able to make it out of the house uninjured.

The National Weather Service sent a team to assess the damage Thursday night to determine if a tornado touched down but did not find conclusive evidence, The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang reported Friday afternoon. The team returned to Arlington on Friday to survey the damage.

The team determined that an EF1 tornado, the second-lowest on the Enhanced Fujita scale, traveled from near the intersection of Lee Highway and N. Glebe Road in Arlington to near 16th Street and Constitution Avenue NW in D.C., along the National Mall, with maximum winds of 90 mph. It was as wide as 125 yards on its 4.4-mile path.

An EF0 tornado touched down inside D.C., one mile northeast of the U.S. Capitol in the H Street Corridor and continued for less than a mile into Kingman Park. The tornado had a maximum width of 75 yards and peak winds of 80 mph.

An AccuWeather meteorologist tweeted a graphic showing the possible path of the tornadoes.

Parts of Northern Virginia, including Fairfax and Arlington counties and Alexandria, were under a flash flood warning Thursday night. Authorities then issued tornado warnings, including one around 9 p.m. for an area of Arlington north of Ballston.

Two people reportedly suffered significant injuries in a crash involving an overturned vehicle on Washington Blvd. near the Columbia Pike in Arlington. The crash happened around the same time as the storm struck, according to ARLnow. The two people were taken to a local trauma center.

Caravans of tree removal trucks traveled across Arlington Friday morning as the county worked to clean up from the storm.

Dominion Energy reported that fewer than 40 customers were still without power at 9:15 a.m. Saturday in Fairfax and Arlington counties and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church.

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