{"id":141445,"date":"2026-03-18T05:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141445\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:52:13","slug":"ef1-tornado-confirmed-for-kent-county-on-monday-night-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141445\/","title":{"rendered":"EF1 tornado confirmed for Kent County on Monday night \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An EF1 tornado touched down in Kent County, Delaware, on Monday night during the intense storms that left extensive damage throughout the Philadelphia region, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nws_mountholly\/status\/2034058023442763974?s=46&amp;t=oRMr9qKmvXd5U7mOgIuRcw\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nws_mountholly\/status\/2034058023442763974?s=46&amp;t=oRMr9qKmvXd5U7mOgIuRcw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to the National Weather Service<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Officials said that the tornado reached maximum wind speed of up to 100 miles per hour in Frederica on March 16. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Survey team confirmed an EF1 tornado near Frederica, DE (Kent County) with max winds to 100 mph. Additional extensive wind damage near Camden, DE remains under review. Full details are expected to be released on Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DEwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#DEwx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Mount Holly (@NWS_MountHolly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWS_MountHolly\/status\/2034058023442763974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 18, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Crews are still examining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/overnight-storms-cause-damage-throughout-the-philadelphia-region\/4369625\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/overnight-storms-cause-damage-throughout-the-philadelphia-region\/4369625\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the damage left behind in Camden<\/a>, Delaware. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An EF1 tornado touched down in Kent County, Delaware, on Monday night during the intense storms that left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[916,7554,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-141445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-delaware","9":"tag-first-alert-weather","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141445","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=141445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}