How surprise storms unleashed violent winds over the District on Monday evening

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The vicious storm toppled scores of trees.

On Monday evening, a ferocious thunderstorm tracked from eastern Montgomery County into the District, unleashing torrential rains and violent downbursts of wind. The storm toppled more than 100 trees in the District alone and unloaded up to two inches of rain in under a half-hour, inundating streets. Hail was also reported in a few areas.

More than 13,000 customers lost power, mostly in the eastern part of the District and adjoining sections of Maryland.

The forecast for the Washington region Monday evening did not include severe weather. While Capital Weather Gang had predicted widely scattered storms, which could be locally heavy, their intensity exceeded expectations. The National Weather Service hadn’t placed the region in an elevated threat zone for severe storms, and no watches were in effect.

But storms that formed in Frederick and northern Loudoun County erupted as they swept southeastward on the District’s hottest day of the year; the high was 97 degrees. The storms became particularly intense in the corridor from near Wheaton and Silver Spring south through Takoma Park and just east of downtown Washington. A weather station near Catholic University clocked a wind gust to 67 mph.

D.C. Fire reported that three homes were ordered vacated because of tree damage, displacing eight adults and one child.'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/07/27/dc-maryland-thunderstorms-damage/?

WOW! NOTHING here in southern MD.

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1. There was a long, seemingly solid of south to north line of rain, and heavy rain

that somehow missed my Manassas neighborhood. Not a drop.