LA PLATA, Md. — On a Sunday evening in late April 2002, a deadly supercell storm tore across the DMV, killing five people and causing millions of dollars worth of damage. Twenty-three years ago, the ...

April 28 marks 20 years since one of the state’s deadliest tornadoes hit Maryland. It was just after 7 p.m. April 28, 2002, a F4 tornado hit LaPlata in Charles County. Three people died, 122 people ...

Ominous sounds of horns blare Friday at approximately 8 p.m. indicating a tornado warning issued for the La Plata area. The entire Southern Maryland region was under a tornado watch until midnight May ...

EVER HIT MARYLAND. YEAH, IT WAS A STORM THAT STARTED OUT WEST. AND AS IT TRACKED THIS WAY TOWARDS SOUTHERN MARYLAND, IT JUST INCREASED IN INTENSITY. AND WE SAW THIS DAMAGE THERE. AND WE’LL SEE A ...

A very strong thunderstorm moved out of Shenandoah County, Virginia that Sunday afternoon and that cell created a half-mile wide tornado that hit Charles County, traveling 24 miles through the region.

The National Weather Service announced yesterday that the April 28 tornado that claimed five lives in and around La Plata was an F4 on the Fujita Damage Scale, and not an F5 as preliminary assessments ...

Home for Deborah McClain and husband Wayne Barnes was once a modest, rented townhouse in a safe La Plata neighborhood, a short walk from her job and close to schools for their six children. But since ...

<p><br><P> The town of La Plata will test its early warning devices and sirens at 10 a.m. Saturday.<P> Testing is done twice per year in early May and early December and lasts about a half-hour. The ...