This link provides the final data from the official storm survey conducted by the NWS Sterling team. It appears that the tornado in Fauquier county that occurred around 5:00 pm Oct. 13th was from the same portion of the storm that produced the northern wall cloud I photographed roughly 30 minutes beforehand. As recorded in a prior post I later retraced this storm's path via radar and found that it was likely the same cell that caused a mini-panic on the University of Maryland's College Park campus later that afternoon.
When I started out from home that day I had two alternatives to intercept the tornado-warned cell that was heading north from Louisa county. I chose the southern route (State Route 3) to Culpeper, but if I had chosen the northern route (U.S. Route 17) toward Bealeton I may have seen this tornado...but then again, maybe not as I didn't have mobile radar access to alert me to the development of this particular cell. I might have wound up too far west to see it!
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