Officials confirm tornado touched down in Sussex County

Officials say that a confirmed tornado happened in Sussex County on Monday evening.

A team of meteorologists from the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, New Jersey along with officials from the Delaware Emergency Management Agency (D.E.M.A), and Sussex County Emergency Operations assessed site damage on Tuesday morning where it was confirmed that a tornado touched down on Monday evening in Greenwood.

There were no reports of injury; however, some damage was reported.

A storage building at the Delaware Electric Co-operative site on U.S Route 13 in Greenwood sustained some damage. Four businesses on the northwest side of the intersection of Sugar Hill and St. Johnstown Roads were also damaged.

Most of the damage impacted farm buildings; but one nearby home had damage to its porch.

National Weather Service officials say that visual evidence, along with radar data from the storm, helped confirm that a tornado affected a specific area of western Sussex County. Officials say that the visual examination was assisted by a D.E.M.A. aerial drone, which provided an overhead view of wooded areas that would have been harder to examine from ground level.

NWS officials say that other nearby damage was caused by straight line winds, some reaching 90 MPH. The National Weather Service will issue more details related to the storm at a later time.