3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
The first tornado touched down inside the Delaware border 3 miles west northwest of Mt. Pleasant and east northeast to about 1.5 miles southeast of Delaware City. The tornado traveled an intermittent path. Most damage was trees being knocked down with the most significant damage in the Meadowbrook Farms development. Here several homes were damaged and a couple of houses under construction were flattened. At Summit Airpark, two hangers lost doors, a tractor trailer was overturned in a field and two farms east of the airpark lost hay lofts. The second tornado touched down 1 mile north of Summit Bridge in Lums Pond Stage Park and moved east northeast to about 2 miles northeast of St. George. The tornado damaged mobile homes and trees in Dragon Run Park. Two mobile homes were blown off their foundations and several sheds were destroyed. A construction site sustained minor damage just west of Route 13 along Route 1.
Thunderstorm winds produced damage just east of the city of New Castle. The damage included two warehouses loosing part of their roof and siding. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down and several homes were damaged.
Tractor trailer truck was blown over by thunderstorm winds on the Delaware Memorial Bridge, blocking traffic.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Delaware in 1993Every state in 1993This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Delaware, 1993Warnings in Delaware, September 1993
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: 10317915, 10317936, 10317937, 10318644, 10318645.