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It looks to have lifted. The warning is canceled. Thank God.

Oh Lord, we have another tornado coming in this direction! This is getting real old.

It’s back up for now.......

It was down on Saturday then back up yesterday. I am sure this is not a new issue. Bad timing for sure.

C.A.P.E. On radar south Dover looked like it got a pretty good hit from a tornado. I could not tell if it was the same cell that came by your or not. It was a separate warning.

Yes, that is easy to believe. One gust in particular bowed a huge Maple tree over. The tree survived but wow!

From Mt. Holly: NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/... Its been an interesting couple of hours this morning as the warm frontal rainfall generally fell east of where we had anticipated it. We`ve seen generally 0.5-1" of rainfall east of the I-95 corridor and across DelMarVa. Based on forecast RFC Flash Flood Guidance, and DOT reports have confirmed, this has been causing the potential for some ponding of water over roads and areas of poor drainage. The pressing issue is that right behind the rainfall fall we`ve seen significant increases in reports of stronger winds. Looking at one hour pressure changes in the HRRR and from obs in the area we`ve seen all the signatures of a gravity wave propagating through the Mid-Atlantic. We`ve issued an SPS to highlight this threat. Moving forward into today, SPC has expanded the SLGT just a bit further north and we think that today`s set up to be an impact day with regards to convection. The timing of the threat should run from around noon through 8pm on the late side. Based on our mesoanalysis forecasters thoughts, we should see initially discrete cells moving through before coalescing into a line of storms. All of the typical steering flow indicators, deep layer shear, bunkers-right, and storm relative flow all is oblique to the boundary. This should mean that as the storms approach the I-95 corridor we`ll be looking at a QLCS event with the potential for rotation along the line.

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21 for the low here. It is back up to 26 already. We had a heavy dusting of snow. It has melted except for raised surfaces. I forgot and left my CoCoRaHS gage out over night. It is frozen and frozen into the bracket. It has .46 of ice in it. Will try to recover it around noon and get the true reading.

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Here is a shot of the tornado warned area from Radar Scope

I have to say that the NWS report for the Laurel area reads like the damage is much milder than what we are seeing. There were more than “several” homes and barns damaged.

RT 13 North bound is open now. South bound is one lane south of Laurel Village. There are still a lot of power outages. 1.28” rain here. It’s a beautiful day weathewise.

Power is back on. No damage here. News is not good. Sussex County First Alert (Facebook) says that there is a lot of damage in this area and advises us to stay home. A number of roads are closed including RT 13 and Alt. 13. Schools are on a 2 hour delay. That is all I have from here. Am not going out to add to the confusion.

That was really scary. The lightening and wind were really bad. I wish we had better news coverage here. Del Elec Coop outage map shows lots of power outages mostly in the western parts of Kent and Sussex counties. Our power is still out and will likely remain that way for awhile. I hope no one was hurt.