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EF0 tornado in Sussex County, Delaware

Tornado June 30, 2025 · Sussex County, Delaware

EF0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Damage assessment determined that an EF0 tornado with a maximum wind speed of 65 mph briefly touched down along Omar Rd in Frankford, DE and moved ESE over a heavily forested area towards Shockley Town Rd. Several brief video clips shared by broadcast media and social media showed various angles of a tornado in progress in the heavily forested area between Omar Rd and Shockley Town Rd. Several large branches were twisted and snapped along Omar Rd. Additional damage is possible in the heavily forested area, but the survey team was unable to access the area.

The wider storm

A cold front moved into a warm and unstable airmass, producing strong to severe thunderstorms and damaging wind gusts. A storm along the sea-breeze also produced a brief tornado.

Began near Frankford (38.5266, -75.2111).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1271288. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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