Tornado, New Castle
- When
- July 21, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- New Castle County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 39.670, -75.570
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Delaware, July 21, 1962
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, New Castle
- When
- July 21, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- New Castle County
- Coordinates
- 39.700, -75.580
Thunderstorm Wind, Kent
- When
- July 21, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Kent County
- Coordinates
- 38.880, -75.500
Thunderstorm Wind, Kent
- When
- July 21, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Kent County
- Coordinates
- 38.880, -75.580
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, July 21, 1962
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 21, 1962
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 21, 1962
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 21, 1962
- Hail in Iowa, July 21, 1962
- Hail in Ohio, July 21, 1962
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 21, 1962
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 21, 1962
- Damaging Wind in Connecticut, July 21, 1962
- Tornado in New Jersey, July 21, 1962
- Damaging Wind in New York, July 21, 1962
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, July 21, 1962
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 9986243, 9986244, 9986245, 9986246.