University of Maryland College Park Tornado

[GreenmeGo]

So distructive

[highguy9900]

1st Collaborative UMD-US Army Weather Control Device Test: Complete. 

[DeidaraAkatsuki135]

i was a 4 year old living in berwyn heights at that time...a glass door that was in front of my front door exploded.

[Gumby1108]

aw hell yeah, triple post for the win

[kbmtl25]

I was just leaving work at the Stamp Student Union at 5 o'clock and I was walking passed the McKeldin Library when the wind just picked up out of nowhere and a leaf smacked me in the forehead and it actually broke the skin and it started to bleed a little bit. A leaf for God's sake. I made it to my friend's place ok, thinking it was just a bad storm. It still bugs me out to think I was only 300 hundred yards away or so when it was tearing through the North Campus.

[kbmtl25]

I was just leaving work at the Stamp Student Union at 5 o'clock and I was walking passed the McKeldin Library when the wind just picked up out of nowhere and a leaf smacked me in the forehead and it actually broke the skin and it started to bleed a little bit. A leaf for God's sake. I made it to my friend's place ok, thinking it was just a bad storm. It still bugs me out to think I was only 300 hundred yards away or so when it was tearing through the North Campus.

[kbmtl25]

I was just leaving work at the Stamp Student Union at 5 o'clock and I was walking passed the McKeldin Library when the wind just picked up out of nowhere and a leaf smacked me in the forehead and it actually broke the skin and it started to bleed a little bit. A leaf for God's sake. I made it to my friend's place ok, thinking it was just a bad storm. It still bugs me out to think I was only 300 hundred yards away or so when it was tearing through the North Campus. That was a crazy September.

[nuknuk623]

girls was in the tornado

[bryantpugh43]

Damn They people are scared. Out of tornado. Shit.

[Falcossbbrules]

What's the song??

[jillykk44]

i cant imagine...

[101kipkayfan]

i live like next to the college there was not one and i did not go away and i mover hear in 01

[arystormdragon]

what building did you film this from?

[EragonJelios]

@arystormdragon Looks like Denton Hall

[PepsiGirl818]

i live in md and i was 2 when it happen,and it happen rite after 9/11 and my dad worked at the pentagon and only 2 ppl died in the tornado and they were my moms uncles friends 2 daughters and they attended the university,u can hear about it and its on a show called storm stories

[pandafasha]

at the same time there was a twister in oldtowm and cumberland maryland

[Nxtl68]

this tornado scared the crap out of me cause i live in Bowie which is literally 10-15 minutes away from the school on the highway and i thought the twister was gonna head our way.

[Babyqs4]

yep my dumb sister was still in her dorm room when this happened, she didnt even know what was goin on. she said she saw people running but thought it was a fight or a party lol

[sdn14]

omgosh. just chanced upon this. I lived in denton hall (where this is filmed) last year. Wow...there used to be stuff in what I've always known as a grassy field. This is the same year as 9-11. Poor freshmen...

[WeatherWarriordotnet]

Buddy was in the library while it hit...didn't even know it. I missed this one as I had moved to Florida...kinda sucked, being that it would have been an easy local chase for me.

[CosmicFunkOSMOSIS]

That twister was part of the "La Plata" system. Hell, someone even caught it on video as it traveled over the Rayburn Building and sent it to WRC-TV/NBC-4. It looked like a black possum tail as it traveled over DC--

THEN it touched down in College Park. I think someone even caught the pickup with the 2 girls in it on video.

[meggiepossum]

@CosmicFunkOSMOSIS What do you mean "the La Plata system"?

[CosmicFunkOSMOSIS]

@meggiepossum

Same year and same time as the twister that hit La Plata, MD.

[meggiepossum]

@CosmicFunkOSMOSIS The F-3 College Park tornado was September 2001 and was a SW to NE system running nearly parallel to I-95 in Virginia and Maryland, therefore missing La Plata. The La Plata tornado was an F-4 in April of 2002. This system ran west to east, south of Washington D.C.

[CosmicFunkOSMOSIS]

@meggiepossum

Thanks for refreshing my memory. The thing I will remember about that 7 months is that it was active. It still proves that given the opportunity, even the National Capitol region gets twisters (hell, I'm old enough to even remember the Richmond Tornado of '73!).

[RoastPlantain]

WTF was that @0:50 looked like some creature

[WeatherWarriordotnet]

@RoastPlantain

I'm pretty sure it's someone with long hair holding their hands over their face.

[Antweezy58]

@RoastPlantain it was a girl covering her face! lol

[littlelyn94]

that tornado hit my high school

[psydrui23]

Two girls lost their lives to that tornado. It threw their car over the dorms. Tragic

[ggaaajnkjnsdh]

im not surprised i did a tornado project for science and i found that there have been 218 tornados reported in maryland since 2000 to 2008

[mrmorpuess]

I was driving on 495 when the tornado came toward me on the highway. I saw the funnel come out of the sky and it sounded like a train coming and my car was being pulled. that was the scariest day of my life. I just put my foot on the gas and passed all the traffice ahead. Didn't know if it was going to come straight down the highway or way. It was rush hour so I drove around all the cars that were stopped on 495 south. CRAZY.

[vadeletind]

the damage was so specific to that part of campus. I was in Leonardtown when it hit and it seemed like any other storm. I was shocked when I went to that side of campus later that night.

[thundercat819]

I've heard of stronger tornadoes (F3+) hitting the DC area, but it was still unbelievable when I saw this one. Then there was that La Plata super twister that following spring!

[MrTheafterschoolshow]

I definately remember this i was on campus at the little pre-school thankfully I got out in time

[GalvaWalken8]

There's almost some kind of sick thrill involved in the terror you feel in these situations.

[Laura21701]

I remember this like it was yesterday. It was my first semester of my senior year when this happened.  I was living on fraternity row at the time, so the tornado was WAAAY on the other side of campus, but we all still def saw it. Scary scary stuff.

[cokefool98]

i remember this day, i was 5 years old and ma mom and oldest brother where in alaska and my dad was at work in varginia and it was me my brother and sister and grandma and the trees were flying everywhere and it was an f4 tornadoe when it hit beltsville

[fire2ems1]

no offense but y were u recording that instead of taking shelter?

[Muziclvr07]

Unbelieveably scary evening that was! My heart goes out to the family of the two girls who were killed. Just horrible!

[thekhwan]

I will never forget that I was working at Persicion Tune on rt 1 in beltsville and I was watching the weather report and they said a strong storm cell and then my shop forman came running in saying there saying on the radio a tornado was shooting down rt 1 look at side sure enough all you saw was a half mile wide funnel coming straight down rt1

[sexyladyinMD]

Continuation....

We're blessed we survived it! We just had a broken window in our condo compared to other people who lost their properties. My heart goes out to the 2 young ladies from UM who died. RIP!

[sexyladyinMD]

I will never forget that day. We used ot live in Montpellier Village @ Beltsville, MD. I was on my way to get food from Shoppers Food warehouse when my neighbor warned me a tornado coming in 5 minutes. At first I coudn't believe it until we saw, it was coming our way. My husband and I grabbed our son and our puppy to the basement until it was over. The scary part is when we were trying to get to the basement door and the wind open the door almost took my husband away.

[XxSnowXDestinyxX]

wow I live about a few minutes from there at that time and i was about 7 yrs old

[caddycoupe1021]

i live 30 seconds from there

[dragonlizard89]

hmm...... i think i was in middle school when this tornado happened.....

[nickalexrock]

damn i was at edgewater elementary i was in 5th grade

[Mirokuschildbarer]

i remember this day. i was in either middle or elementary. my mom came home early cause of the warning and my older bro was outside riding his bike somewhere. crazy my mom was freaking out. i was so scared. didnt know they had a cid of it on here

[Semidey777]

omg i remember tht thing i was in st. marks elementary school and it went right through it dude we were all scrd to death

[JakandTrainLover7859]

i see foreceys (i think i spelled it right)

fortecys: are 3 little tornados or more then they get together and form into a tornado.i think>>>>>>.

[Coonshake]

@JakandTrainLover7859

They're called "vortices".

[GuitarHero2131]

maryland has been getting MANY tornadoes lately

[mbwbg91]

What are you talking about?? We haven't been getting any these days!

[GuitarHero2131]

dude... maryland has been under a total of about 10 tornado warnings in the past 10 days

[mbwbg91]

where do you live? ? I'm in La Plata

[GuitarHero2131]

i don't live far from you... i live in st.mary's county just below la plata... you guys had an ef1 or an ef2 tornado years ago.. it was nasty

[Vamp6661]

hmm i live in bowie maryland and this was close to where i live....hmmm i dont remember this tornado

[hanakimi19]

yea tornado's are VERY rare in maryland

[Terpguy00]

I witnessed this tornado when I was driving down Rt. 1 It was hard to believe what I was seeing given that is is very rare for this area to get tornados.

[jeffamaniac95]

if i was there at the same time of the tornado i would freak out..

[astyou6]

there not that scary to watch only when they touch down

[youngestpilotinGa]

wow great vid

[kidneyguy]

hopefully this won't happen again when i go there.....

[nickalexrock]

maryland ??? f3

[BandTrumpet7]

Absolutely unbelievable.  Fantastic video, but I can't say it's not a little disturbing since I lived in Elkton and I parked in that parking lot.

[screwpit52]

i thought it was a f4

[NYbeerdude]

holy crap - I used to live in Elkton right by there - I recognize everything. That parking lot is by the day care center right?

[immi1388]

How long after it passed was the damage footage taken?

[Tomboy2456]

Were you in Easton hall? Which side of the building were you looking out of?