LA PLATA, Md. — The scars are easy to miss and the signs of the tornado from 20 years ago are mostly seen in what's been rebuilt. But for those who were here the memories of the devastation are still ...

April 28 marks 20 years since one of the state's deadliest tornadoes hit Maryland. It was just after 7 p.m. April 28, 2002, a F4 tornado hit LaPlata in Charles County. Three people died, 122 people ...

LA PLATA, Md. — Tornado sirens went off in La Plata, Maryland, during Monday's storms. As it turns out, La Plata was never under a tornado warning for those storms. This warning was so far west didn't ...

On the evening April 28, 2002, a strong weather system moving east over the Appalachian Mountains spawned a tornado that would bear down on the town of La Plata. Current Mayor of La Plata Jeannine ...

When visiting La Plata, Maryland, it's hard to imagine that much of the town was leveled by a tornado 20 years ago. "We just went through a tornado and we're sitting in a building and there's ...

A very strong thunderstorm moved out of Shenandoah County, Virginia that Sunday afternoon and that cell created a half-mile wide tornado that hit Charles County, traveling 24 miles through the region.

The National Weather Service announced yesterday that the April 28 tornado that claimed five lives in and around La Plata was an F4 on the Fujita Damage Scale, and not an F5 as preliminary assessments ...

Home for Deborah McClain and husband Wayne Barnes was once a modest, rented townhouse in a safe La Plata neighborhood, a short walk from her job and close to schools for their six children. But since ...