Storm events in Kent County
Storms, floods, heat, snow and other severe weather NOAA recorded for Kent County, Delaware: type, start and end time, strength, injuries, deaths, damage and the National Weather Service description.
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Read 2026-11-07 (NCEI Open Data Policy PD-10-2-02, section 4a). The dataset record (gov.noaa.ncdc:C00510) asks: "Cite dataset when used as a source." It also says some entries came from sources outside the NWS, often credited in the text, and that NWS does not guarantee accuracy. The event narratives are kept; they are written by NWS staff. Please credit it with the line below.
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- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
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- License
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database.- Updated
- Monthly
- Covers
- 1996 to now
- Area
- Kent County, Delaware (county and forecast zone records)
Fields
storm_events
event_id, episode_id, year, event_type, cz_type, cz_fips, cz_name, begin_date, begin_local, end_local, timezone, magnitude, magnitude_type, injuries_direct, injuries_indirect, deaths_direct, deaths_indirect, damage_property, damage_crops, flood_cause, tor_f_scale, begin_location, event_narrative, source_file, updated_at
Downloads and API
Files are saved each morning. Earlier copies, one for each day the data changed, are listed at noaa-storm-events-kent/versions.
Or page through the rows in the OpenDover API. No key is needed.
https://api.opendover.org/v1/datasets/noaa-storm-events-kent/rows?table=storm_events
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