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Old 06-25-2015, 11:48 AM
 
Location: West Hollywood, CA from Arlington, VA
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That's what concerns me about tornadoes in NoVA. People who have lived here for a while may not have experienced them directly, because weather patterns in the DC Metro area are extremely variable, and can change so quickly during a storm. You may not have personally experienced a tornado, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't happen here. Then, people that move to NoVA from places that have more tornadoes may tend to take our watches/warnings less seriously (and I do know there's a difference in both quantity and quality, having grown up in both Atlanta and Kansas City, but that doesn't mean you should ignore them), and people that move here from non-tornado-y places may not pick up enough on our watches/warnings (because we don't have tornado sirens that blare in the streets) and not know what to do if there is a warning.
More people died in the 2011 derecho than have died from tornados in the last 40 years in NOVA. I think we'll be okay.

And yes, coming from South Carolina and North Carolina, where we get severe weather all the time, I really do blow this stuff off. We had a hurricane party when Isabel hit because we were hardly worried.

Of course, with the DC media, if anything actually happened, there would be mass hysteria around here ala Sandy in NJ/NY.
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Old 09-28-2015, 04:44 PM
 
Location: Fairfax County, VA
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Is there a video out there of this system?
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Old 09-29-2015, 05:53 AM
 
Location: MID ATLANTIC
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Isabel put an 80 foot oak through the roof of our home. Our family of 4 humans and 3 dogs huddled in the basement level in our rec room, before and after the event. It was a very long night. Sunrise revealed we were sleeping directly below a chimney ready to collapse.

Besides living 4 days without electricity, that is when I found out replacement insurance is not replacement insurance.
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Old 09-30-2015, 10:47 AM
 
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Is there a video out there of this system?
Concerning Bristow/manassas (close to centerville) It looks like a tornado hit Bristow and Manassas - Potomac Local Potomac Local
Fairfax:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAiFhf2Oqg4
Alexandria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awNmhgwYaBc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M3IEX_NRPo
Stafford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJKupTSiDlw (wham wham)
Fredricksburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIP8XM51wWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U-nCO-mrts
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One more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAiFhf2Oqg4

Actually have my own the system that passed through quantico and literally went over head... i would share it but google drive creeps me out how it shares...

Actually two years in a row.. we had scuds pass over head. Super creepy seeing them spin up... but not reach all the way down.


Nova gets them.. but the terrain never really lets them spin up like they want to... hence why they xplode once they hit Maryland locations....

NOOOOOW... i wonder what happens now that potomac shores has ripped down a lot of trees and left a lot flat areas to spin up on.
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Old 09-30-2015, 12:00 PM
 
Location: Gainesville, VA
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The one that hit Bristow in June was almost in the exact same spot a tornado hit a few years back (by just hundreds of feet).
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Old 11-29-2015, 10:16 AM
 
Location: Fairfax County, VA
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Are there any photos and/or videos out there of the 1996 Centreville tornado?
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Old 04-08-2017, 09:09 AM
 
Location: Fairfax County, VA
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The one that hit Bristow in June was almost in the exact same spot a tornado hit a few years back (by just hundreds of feet).
I imagine that this is the one that you spoke of:

June 20, 2015: Tornado History Project: 20150620.51.584594
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Old 04-08-2017, 06:39 PM
 
Location: Metro Washington DC
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Insting that you brought this thread back up a couple of days after one supposedly happened at the Loudoun Fairfax border in Herndon or Sterling. I was close by for this one too (see earlier in the thread about Sept 2001). I didn't see it, but my van was rocking, the wind was strong.
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Old 04-10-2017, 07:04 AM
 
Location: Falls Church, VA
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Pretty sure my wife saw the tornado last week that started near the Army-Navy club and went across the river into the Tidal Basin.
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Old 04-15-2017, 05:55 PM
 
Location: Fairfax County, VA
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Pretty sure my wife saw the tornado last week that started near the Army-Navy club and went across the river into the Tidal Basin.
Video in case anyone is wondering: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video...f9e_video.html

And an article on that system: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.7adbf5079d19
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