Tornado, Sussex
- When
- June 24, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sussex County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.530, -75.070
Tornado in Delaware, June 24, 1962
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 1
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
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 24, 1962
- Tornado in Kansas, June 24, 1962
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 24, 1962
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 24, 1962
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 24, 1962
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 24, 1962
- Hail in Illinois, June 24, 1962
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 24, 1962
- Tornado in Maryland, June 24, 1962
- Hail in Arkansas, June 24, 1962
- Hail in Mississippi, June 24, 1962
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, June 24, 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: 9986242.