UPDATE: Officials Believe Tornado May Have Touched Down in Woodbine

A team from the National Weather Service (NWS) will be assessing the damage from what officials believe was a tornado touch down in Woodbine Monday evening.

The NWS team will be on-site at the home in Woodbine, along with Office of Emergency Management staff in order to confirm reports that a tornado touched down.

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Officials say that what appears to be a tornado has touched down in Woodbine, destroying two structures, according to the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services (HCDFRS).

Crews were called to the 3200 block of Starting Gate Court in Woodbine just after 7 p.m. for a report of a building collapse. When they got there, however, “they saw a building and a garage shed that were basically flattened,” according to HCDFRS spokesperson Jackie Cutler.

The debris in the yard also followed a trail that indicated a tornado touchdown, Cutler said. 

"It looks like tornado came that way," she said, later describing the event as an "unconfirmed tornado."

Neither the National Weather Service nor the Maryland Emergency Management Agency have verified whether or not Monday night's weather event was a tornado, according to Cutler. 

The home was not damaged and two residents were not injured, Cutler said. Crews on the scene say there is still “active weather” in the area, according to Cutler, including moving and still water in the roads, especially on Woodbine Road. 

The National Weather Service has issued tornado and flash flood watches in Carroll County until 10 p.m. Monday.

This article has been updated to reflect that officials believe it was a tornado but that it has not officially been declared a tornado yet.