Amelia for an update. Im tracking showers and thunderstorms firing ahead of a cold front. That cold front in indiana. Were going to have thunderstorms a rain moving through during the evening hours and into the early overnight hours. Now theres a tornado watch for areas back to our west. As close as Garrett County in maryland, grant and mineral counties in West Virginia. This tornado watch is going to go until 9 00on. In fact you can see the area is mainly dry. But im keeping a close eye on this area of heavy rain and thunderstorms making its way over morgantown, continuing to make a bee line toward frostsburg a haguerstown and well continue to see more thunderstorms moving through the area during the evening hours. Thou the t n would be high winds that could produce damage across the area and heavy rain that could lead to flash flooding. We cannot rule out a weak tornado this evening. Mainly around washington and areas to the north. Some hail is also possible with any storms but the m
Tomorrow mni will be the first big test with the monday morning commute. Well havyt you need to know for a smooth ride ahead. Governor on trial. Tonight t first couple is getting ready for their day in court. A stormy end to our weekend right now. Were tracking a line of rain and storms threatening our area. Amelia starts us off with the latest. Well, chris, thunderstorms really contained to Frederick County. Arias to theoh were starting to see this activity get more weak as it continu to push towards washington. As we lookt storm team 4 radar, rig now, lets talk about the alerts. A severe thunderstorm watch for the counties in pink. This includes Frederick County and Carroll County in maryland. A tornado watch for parts of the shenando valley. This until 3 00 this morning. All of this activity developing ahead of a cold front. This front moves through our area throuou the day tomorrow. Now here on storm team 4 radar you can see heavy rain. Lots of thunder and lightning making it way t
But we begin on storm watch. Storms and rain expected to hit parts of our area tonight. We have been tracking it all evening and we will see what we can expect. Strongest storms are pushing through frederick county, maryland. Of very heavy rain and a lot of lightning associated with this. E will start with live superdoppler. Top right corner total lightning 80 but rain stretches to the southwest pu through loudoun and fauquier and winchester and front royal and a lot of lightning. No severe thunderstorm warnings in effect at this point. In to the storm cells pushing through to the walkersville and urbana. Im sure you are hearing heavy rain right now. The storm scan the wider view pockets of heavy storm in the midatlantic. The cold front is to the west ohio river ugh the valley and i will zoom out again because the boxes indicate where severe thunderstorm watches are in effect. And ve one in for northern with respect portions of the region and tornado watch in the box to the southwest i
Rush hour. This is exciting. The corruption trial against former Virginia Governor Bob Mcdonnell and his wife begins monday morning. Hello, im bruce johnson. Were not out of the woods yet. Severe storms still possible overnight across the area. First alert meteorologist erica grow has the latest on our yellow alert. Thats right, we are still in yellow alert mode because of these strong thunderstorms that continue to push through the d. C. Metro area. Most of the day was dry, especially in the beltway, but now the overnight hours, thats when things have really started to get active. If you watched our newscast yesterday, you heard me mention that the main event would be during the overnight hours. Here we are, 11 00, and the main event is happening, up into Frederick County and washington county. This is the red and orange indicating the heaviest rainfall, at a rate of one to two inches per hour in some of these little storm cells. This ising moving to the east at 45 Miles Per Hour. Exp