Tornado, New Castle
- When
- August 10, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- New Castle County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 39.620, -75.720
Tornado in Delaware, August 10, 1979
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
- $250,000
- 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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, August 10, 1979
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in New York, August 10, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 10, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Connecticut, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in New Jersey, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 10, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, August 10, 1979
More
Every storm in Delaware in 1979Every state in 1979This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Delaware, 1979
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: 9985135.