Dan The Weather Man: Talking Climate and Weather

         Is that Kansas? Is that Oklahoma? Nope, it's Maryland!  Figure 1: Radar imagery of  Germantown- Gaithersburg  supercell  that promoted a  Tornado Emergency.  Radar  showing a  clear  debris  ball and  Tornado Debris Signature  (TDS),  indicating a tornado ongoing.    On the afternoon of June 5, 2024, residents in Maryland and Northern Virginia were treated to an early preview of the new Twisters movie...only this time without the CGI. The region experienced a somewhat unexpected regional tornado outbreak, in which a total of 7 tornadoes touched down across Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. One such tornado tracked through the populous towns of Germantown and Gaithersburg, Maryland,  prompting the region's first ever Tornado Emergency ( Figure 1 ).           Though the DelMarVa region was outlined in a marginal risk for the potential for a f...