Lightning and heavy, damaging winds hit the D.C. area on July 19, 2016 as severe weather moved through the region.
A massive tree snaps in severe July 19, 2016 weather and falls on a Silver Spring, Maryland, house.
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WTOP/Nick Iannelli
Here’s a close up of the Silver Spring house and the tree that fell on it after the July 19, 2016 storm.
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WTOP/Nick Iannelli
A tree takes down power lines onto a car at Robin Road and Tenbrook Drive in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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WTOP/Nick Iannelli
Tree damage on the Ellipse on Wednesday morning, July 20, 2016.
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John Sonderman via Twitter
The morning after the July 19 storm in a backyard of a Bethesda, Maryland, home.
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WTOP/Debbie Feinstein
After the July 19 storm, damage was extensive in the backyard of a Bethesda, Maryland, home.
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WTOP/Debbie Feinstein
Looking north from Chantilly, Virginia, at 11 p.m. Tuesday night.
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Mark Hall via Twitter
The view from Independence Avenue approaching 17th Street Northwest at about 7 a.m. Wednesday morning.
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WTOP/Rick McClure
(WTOP/Rick McClure)
Lanes were blocked on Constitution Avenue after trees had fallen from the July 19, 2016 storm.
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WTOP/Mitchell Miller
Trees are down on Constitution Avenue near 11th Street Northeast after the July 19, 2016 storm.
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WTOP/Mitchell Miller
The back end of the storm on the night of July 19, 2016.
(Stan Reeser via Twitter)
Stan Reeser via Twitter
Westbound River Road blocked at Goldsboro Road in Bethesda, Maryland due to downed trees on July 19, 2016.
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WTOP/Dave Dildine
Hail up to the size of quarters in Friendship Heights on July 19, 2016.
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WTOP/Dave Dildine
Storms lights up the sky in Northwest, D.C. over Friendship Heights on July 19, 2016.
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WTOP/Dave Dildine
The storm forced play to be suspended at the Citi Open for the night on July 19, 2016.
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WTOP/Ben Raby
Los Angeles Dodgers’ first baseman Adrian Gonzalez shows the post-Nationals game flooding at Nats Park on July 19, 2016.
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(WTOP/Ben Raby)
Hail in Northwest, D.C. on July 19, 2016.
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Courtesy Laura Rogers
A driver’s car get’s pelted with hail as she sits in a parked car near Interstate 395 South on July 19, 2016. (Twitter/@spookyolive)
(Courtesy Laura Rogers)
Lightning is seen near the National Cathedral in Northwest, D.C. on July 19, 2016.
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Twitter/@cbuchanan00
Thunder and lightning as the storm rolls through Wheaton, Maryland on July 19, 2016. (Twitter/@itsjazroa)
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Lightning flashes over Clarendon, Virginia on July 19, 2016.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. — After severe weather brought heavy rain and lightning into the region late Tuesday night, residents are waking up to fallen trees and power outages.
The storm took down branches and power lines — and it even snapped a massive tree in half, sending it crashing into the roof of a home in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Early Wednesday morning, the tree could be seen in jagged pieces, lying horizontal on top of a house on Pierce Drive.
“We had quite a storm,” said Pete Piringer with Montgomery County Fire and Rescue. “We still have a lot of debris in certain areas.”
The home in the 10000 block of Pierce Drive is uninhabitable and the family that lives there is now displaced, according to fire officials.
“Fortunately there were no injuries,” Piringer added.
Less than two miles away at the intersection of Robin Road and Tenbrook Drive, power lines were taken down by another tree that snapped in half. A parked car was tangled in the wires as utility crews worked on the scene.
“It was just intense,” said Bruce Wood, who lives near the fallen power lines. “I didn’t expect it to be as strong as it was.”
The storm even brought a bit of hail and a flash flood warning for D.C., and Montgomery and Prince George’s counties from the National Weather Service that lasted into the morning.
But after the storm, the sun will return Wednesday, followed by low humidity and comfortable temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. For the latest forecast, visit the WTOP Weather Page.
WTOP’s Teta Alim and Meg Schweitzer contributed to this report.
