Tornado-Ravaged States Pick Up Pieces (Associated Press)
Deborah McClain was hiding in her basement with her husband and six
children when La Plata was ripped by a deadly tornado, one of the most
powerful in Maryland history. The tornado that hit La Plata was an F5, the
most powerful, according to a preliminary determination by the National
Weather Service (news - web sites). In Charles County alone, the twister
destroyed six houses and left a track of damage 24 miles long and 400 yards
wide. Damage still needed to be evaluated in Calvert County.
Under the Fujita scale, a twister with an F5 rating has winds from 261 mph
to 318 mph. Maryland has never had an F5 and only two F4s are on record —
including one in 1926 that killed 14 schoolchildren in La Plata.
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