NEW CASTLE, Del. (KYW Newsradio) — A tornado touched down in New Castle, Del. as severe storms brought heavy winds, hail and rain to the Philly region. Tornado warnings were issued by the National Weather Service in Delaware and South Jersey.
The storm left residential neighborhoods from South Jersey to Chester County blanketed in tiny pebbles of hail. In Delaware, where the tornado touched down between Wilmington and Newark, cars were smashed by debris, trees were uprooted and crews are already at work with the cleanup.
Off Chapman Road in Newark, Del. one business park was one of those scenes of tornado destruction as several cars were caked in mud, smashed by wayward signs, branches or entire trees.
April B’s car was one of the unlucky victims of the passing tornado.
“I was upstairs at work looking through the window and heard all the noise from the tornado, and I didn’t know my car was involved,” she said.
April said the building where she works also sustained some damage in the vortex, as it lost power and some electrical lines were severed.
Still, she said she’s thankful she and none of her coworkers were injured in the tornado.
“We can always replace a car, but if I was in there, one of my coworkers as we go to lunch together, we wouldn’t have probably been as fortunate,” said April.
While the severe storms died down Thursday evening, rain will continue throughout the overnight hours and into Friday.
