Special Weather Statement issued October 14 at 4:45PM EDT by NWS Baltimore MD/Washington DC
Official severe-weather alerts, warning areas, and disaster updates.
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At 444 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Bittinger, moving southeast at 40 mph. Winds in excess of 40 mph and nickel size hail are possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Frostburg, Westernport, Bel Air, Bittinger, Lonaconing, Piedmont, Grantsville, Cresaptown, Eckhart Mines, Barton, Midland, Midlothian, Franklin, Woodland, Luke, Merrill, Jennings, Keysers Ridge, Big Run State Park, and New Germany. This includes Interstate 68 in Maryland between mile markers 13 and 24, and between mile markers 32 and 36. This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio stations and available television stations for additional information and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
- Event time
- Source last updated
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- Provider
- NWS — active weather alerts (Storm)
- Location
- MD, US
- Severity
- Moderate
- area
- Extreme Western Allegany; Western Garrett; Eastern Garrett
- event
- Special Weather Statement
- onset
- 2026-10-14T16:45:00-04:00
- states
- ["MD"]
- urgency
- Expected
- certainty
- Observed
- effective
- 2026-10-14T16:45:00-04:00
- message id
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.df7d5e87a6c445ab68e301717fdc7e10cbfa5394.001.1
- references
- []
- message type
- Alert
- freshness minutes
- 60
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