Tornado Hits La Plata, Maryland

This pair of images from the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) shows the strip of flattened and possibly denuded vegetation left by the F4 tornado (winds from 207 to 260 miles per hour, causing “devastating damage”) that struck La Plata, Maryland on April 28, 2002.

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Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team.

Published May 8, 2002
Data acquired May 1, 2002

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