8:00 Update

Severe Thunderstorm Warninds in effect for: Culpeper, Rappahannock, Stafford, the city of Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania Counties in Virginia

Discusion: All of the severe activity has cleared the D.C. metro area...

Clinton, MD reported 2" size hail at 6:17 PM!!!

5:15 PM UPDATE:

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in effect for: Montgomery, Talbot, Queen Anne's, and Western Dorchester Counties until 6PM

Storms are approaching the DC metropolitan region, moving in a pecuiliar fashion to the south and southwest (usually, storms in the Mid Atlantic travel west to east) at about 20-30 miles per hour. Expect thunderstorms with heavy downpours, wind gusts 40-60 mph and cloud to ground lightning to move inside the beltway within the hour.

Severe Thunderstorms are firing east of the Chesapeake Bay over Talbot and Queen Anne's counties and should move into southern St Mary's county in two hours or so.

Above Image: Radar at 5PM shows thunderstorms moving southwest towards the District. Some of the more intense storms contain small hail. (GRLevel3)

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The air mass over us has become moderately unstable this afternoon with temperatures well into the 80s. Additionally, unseasonably low freezing points will make damaging hail the main threat with these storms.

Expect the main complex of storms to move over the area around the 6-7 pm hour.