{"id":269888,"date":"2026-08-22T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269888\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:30:08","slug":"tornado-touched-down-near-downingtown-pennsylvania-during-storms-nws-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269888\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado touched down near Downingtown, Pennsylvania, during storms, NWS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An EF-0 tornado touched down near Downingtown, Pennsylvania, during Thursday&#8217;s storms, the National Weather Service said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Teams are still surveying the damage and will share additional information on Saturday, the NWS said. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/oun\/efscale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">EF-0 tornado<\/a> has estimated wind speeds of 65-85 mph.<\/p>\n<p>The NWS also confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/tornado-damages-cleanup-dover-little-league-fields\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EF-1 tornadoes in the Dover, Delaware, area<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/baltimore\/news\/tornado-watch-issued-for-12-counties-across-maryland\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queen Anne&#8217;s County, Maryland<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/atlantic-beach-long-island-tornado-cleanup\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Island, New York<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tornado in Delaware caused significant damage to multiple commercial buildings and to the local Little League facilities.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An EF-0 tornado touched down near Downingtown, Pennsylvania, during Thursday&#8217;s storms, the National Weather Service said.\u00a0 Teams are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1557,6434,28,30,29,6682],"class_list":["post-269888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-chester-county","tag-next-weather","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-tornado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269888","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=269888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269888\/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=269888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}