{"id":269853,"date":"2026-08-22T00:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269853\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T00:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:14:14","slug":"cleanup-continues-after-tornado-strong-storms-hit-philly-region-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269853\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleanup continues after tornado, strong storms hit Philly region \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to KnowResidents in Dover, Delaware, are cleaning up after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/weather\/stories-weather\/tornado-causes-extensive-damage-in-dover\/4451495\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/weather\/stories-weather\/tornado-causes-extensive-damage-in-dover\/4451495\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a confirmed tornado damaged hotels, brought down trees and power lines and knocked out power across the city.<\/a>The mayor of Dover\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/doverpd\/posts\/pfbid02sassXTg647cDtaVWqZPUrnd1EkqFMG2nK4HnYwvAgLWuHCcjWg5yev9cczfkdGqEl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">issued a state of emergency as police blocked roads<\/a>\u00a0and crews worked to restore power and clear debris. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DoverMayorChristiansen\/posts\/pfbid023x5dLNPaAUQQxK1KWM5UQWXuB17LvpA7UyCnWYfsjX78P4gEx2d7tcBisoD2P7rGl\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DoverMayorChristiansen\/posts\/pfbid023x5dLNPaAUQQxK1KWM5UQWXuB17LvpA7UyCnWYfsjX78P4gEx2d7tcBisoD2P7rGl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">That state of emergency was later lifted Friday morning.<\/a> Despite the widespread damage, police said no injuries were reported.The tornado occurred after powerful storms swept through the entire region on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, prompting a tornado watch and multiple tornado warnings, as well as heavy rain and flash flooding.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/weather\/bright-and-calm-weather-friday-but-a-shower-threat-looms-for-the-weekend\/4451585\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/weather\/bright-and-calm-weather-friday-but-a-shower-threat-looms-for-the-weekend\/4451585\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Conditions were much nicer on Friday<\/a> with sunny skies and comfortable temperatures.Get the latest weather updates by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">downloading the NBC10 app<\/a> and following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the NBC10 First Alert Weather team.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neighbors were continuing cleanup efforts after severe storms brought flooding rains and at least one tornado on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowResidents in Dover, Delaware, are cleaning up after a confirmed tornado damaged hotels, brought down trees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7554,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-269853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-first-alert-weather","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269853","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=269853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}