{"id":141229,"date":"2026-03-18T00:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141229\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:37:07","slug":"tornado-touched-down-in-kent-county-delaware-national-weather-service-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141229\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado touched down in Kent County, Delaware, National Weather Service says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An EF-1 tornado touched down in Kent County, Delaware, Monday night as severe storms hit the Philadelphia region, the National Weather Service said Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NWS said in a preliminary report that the EF-1 tornado happened near Frederica, Kent County, and had an estimated wind speed of 100 mph. Frederica is roughly 15 mins south of Dover.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Tuesday, the NWS confirmed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/baltimore\/news\/tornado-maryland-eastern-shore-caroline-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EF-1 tornado touched down in Ridgely, Maryland<\/a>, Monday night that also had maximum winds of 100 mph.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the tornadoes, the NWS is investigating storm damage near Camden, Delaware. It said preliminary estimates of maximum wind speed in the area were 100 mph, but it hasn&#8217;t been determined whether it was straight-line wind or tornado damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NWS is also investigating significant wind damage that happened between Sudlersville and Millington in Queen Anne&#8217;s County, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>A final assessment of the damage is expected to be completed on Wednesday, according to the NWS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An EF-1 tornado touched down in Kent County, Delaware, Monday night as severe storms hit the Philadelphia region,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[916,59135,69,71,70,6682,913],"class_list":["post-141229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-delaware","tag-kent-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-tornado","tag-weather-forecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}