Storm events in Kent County
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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.

Published by: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/storm-events-database/, https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/swdi/stormevents/csvfiles/
License: Public domain (U.S. government work)
Credit line: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database.
Updated: Monthly
Covers: 1996 to now
Area: Kent County, Delaware (county and forecast zone records)

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.

Files
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- storm_events.csv and storm_events.json: 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

Each file is built from OpenDover's database when you download it. In the CSV files, text that a spreadsheet would
treat as a formula (starting with =, +, @ or -) begins with an apostrophe so it opens as plain text. The JSON files
hold the values exactly.

This copy: 2026-11-08

More: https://opendover.org/data/noaa-storm-events-kent/
API: https://api.opendover.org/v1/datasets/noaa-storm-events-kent