Tornado, severe storm leaves trail of destruction in Delaware, PA

Water streaming down the road there, it was melting, and people were trying to drive through it wondering, what's going on? Yeah, something unusual for sure. And a viewer sent us this video also from Parkside showing an intersection covered in mounds of hail. It looks like one car got stuck, but this definitely looks like snow. That's a ton. I mean, it's like a foot of hail. I don't know what the measurement is. I don't even know if they keep measurements of this stuff. But here is the big one, too. Look at this. A tornado confirmed in Newcastle County, and the video and tornado confirmed by the National Weather Service. The agency says survey teams will be out there tomorrow to look at the damage in areas in southwest Wilmington. We sent our Jeff Skawerski out to Delaware to check out the damage on the ground. So, Jeff, how's it been out there? Sheba, among the worst tornado damage here in Delaware, right here, where a massive hotel sign fell on these two cars that are completely totaled, one of the owners of the car says his wife was seconds away from getting in when it came crashing down. It was shock. It was pure shock. Daryl Badley could not believe his eyes as Honda, among the two cars completely destroyed outside the Senesta Suites on Chapman Road in Newark, Delaware. That was crazy. Powerful winds from the tornado that touched down in Newcastle County brought down this hotel sign on these two vehicles. A devastated Badley says he bought this less than a year ago, a birthday present for his wife who saw it all go down as a tornado swirled in her sight line. And she saw the sign shaking. She said, I hope the sign doesn't fall on my car. And literally as soon as she said it. Bam. Believe it or not, Badley feels lucky because it could have been much worse. I'm grateful because my wife was actually getting ready to get in the car. To go to go to go somewhere. So has she not stalled and you know something in her told her just wait, you know, wait and see and wait, wait till the storm passes. Has she not done that? She would have been in the car when all this happened. Just a few hundred yards away, more damage at the University Plaza Corporate Center from this overturned container to another car totaled after a massive tree came down on it. Eric Hines feels for his coworker who lost her car in the tornado. Horrible. Horrible. That's, she's got to get back and forth to work. She's got to live her life, you know, and then all of a sudden, just in a snap, you know, she can't, you know, she's got to deal with all those stresses. Steps away, another tree came crashing down on this building, causing damage to the top of the structure. It's a little mind-blowing. The tree right there could have gone the other way and actually hit where my desk is. Thank goodness you're okay. Thank goodness I wasn't here today. The cleanup in New Castle County is underway. Crews spending hours cleaning up the massive downed trees and branches outside this neighborhood. The damage happened so quickly. It's so fast, but in like 10 minutes everything comes down. The trees, the signs, the cars, everything. In 10 minutes? Yeah. Yeah, I never saw that before. Yeah, again, it happened so fast. Back live out here outside the Senesta Suites in Newark, Delaware. You can see the pressure and the weight of this massive hotel sign destroyed this car and the car next to it, popping off the bumper, shattering the windshield as well as the moonroof. Luckily, nobody was injured in these accidents with these cars. It could have been much, much worse. We're live in Delaware tonight. Jeff Skawerski, Fox 29 News. What a day. What a weather day for sure. We will not forget this one anytime soon. Thank you, Jeff. So let's go to Kathy now. And I was wondering about hail, Kathy. Do they keep measurements of, you know, accumulation of hail, like inches? We typically don't. I mean, the National Weather Service doesn't have a measurement in inches. We measure the sizes. That looked like a downpour of pea-sized hail, but those pictures were incredible. And it just is a tribute to how strong and how big that storm had to be. It's going to be very interesting when the National Weather Service surveys that tomorrow and lets us know what rating it is. It could be an EF2 or 3 storm, but they will definitely let us know. Ultimate Doppler showing what is left on the back side of this as that area of low pressure pulls away. There's a few spotty showers to the north and west of Philadelphia, There are no watches, there are no warnings, and we don't anticipate anything like that tonight. You can see some showers in Reading, Berks County and parts of Montgomery County, Chester County, and Delco moving toward the southeast. Philadelphia right now in Old City, the roads are a little bit wet, damp. The temperature, 52 degrees. Temperature is cooling fast, 40s in the Lehigh Valley, Berks County, even Doylestown and Trenton, 50s from Philadelphia south and east. And overnight, 38 in the colder suburbs to 44 in Center City with a northeasterly wind. This is not good. going to be the core of the cold air. It's going to slowly be moving in. It's kind of sneaky during the day tomorrow. So tomorrow we're in the 40s with some spotty showers and some wind. Wind's gusting to 30 miles an hour tomorrow, making it feel much colder. 35 in the Poconos and a chance of some snow showers in the higher elevations. If you're heading up the Northeast Extension through the Lehigh Valley, the upper part, the higher elevations of the Poconos into places like Scranton, Binghamton, New York, Syracuse, New York, that's where you're going to see the snow. 41 in Westchester with a cold rain, 44 in Glassboro. And we're going to watch as we see that cold air being filtered down during the early morning hours of Friday. Friday, maybe a wintry mix in the Lehigh Valley, but mainly rain, not snow, and some spotty So the coldest air this season moving in by Saturday morning. Wind chills in the 20s. That's going to be a shock. And that chilly stretch will last into the mid period of next week. We'll talk more about that with the seven day coming up. Thank you, Kathy. And let's take you around. You, the viewer, sent us so many videos here during this. And we appreciate that. This is Plymouth Meeting and the hail. Look at this in this moment, falling like snow. And more now from Delaware County. This video from Nether Providence Township. All sorts of hail sizes out there. Yes, open the door. Let's take a closer look. Winter Wonderland in November. Yeah, I don't know about Wonderland, though. I mean, a lot of these people had damage, you know, maybe some dents in their car. If you're talking about golf ball size hail, broken glass, maybe. So, yeah, that's scary. You almost want to cover your car. But this came quickly.