2021 Bethesda-Rising Sun, Maryland tornado

The 2021 Bethesda-Rising Sun, Maryland tornado was an extremely catastrophic EF5-rated multiple-vortex wedge tornado that tore through 5 counties and Baltimore City in Maryland in the early evening hours of May 17, 2021. The devastating tornado killed 171 people and injured 1,530+ others along its 89 mile long path through Maryland. It was the deadliest tornado to ever strike the state, the second EF5 to strike the state, and is one of the deadliest tornadoes in United States history. A state of emergency was later declared for the entire state following the tornado.