Barnsboro 5 oclock, richwood coming in at 5 01, Gloucester City just after the 5 oclock hour, tacony coming in at 5 03, collingswood right around 5 34, so those towns and times as that line continues to push to the east at nearly 45 miles an hour. Not only lightning is a concern but also the intense rain with this. Rainfall rates with these storms have been over two to three as much as 4inches an hour, 4. 3inches per hour, so it is blinding rain as it passes through and we have an additional Severe Thunderstorm Warning southern parts of New Castle County as well as kent county down to woodside. This until about 4 00, 5 30 this morning. Nasty cluster of storms, moving towards miles an hour today nah middletown nearly 150 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes so this well have to watch for all of our Delaware County watches here over the next 15 to 20 minutes. I bring in meteorologist Melissa Magee and this mag and s is a big storm engulfing most of the midatlantic. Thats right. When
Gloucester by about 5 04. Evesham by five com ten. Waterford, new jersey, 51 00 agent winslow by 5 23. Hammonton by 5 29 and in eagle by 5 35. A line of severe thunderstorms moving east at 50 miles an hour heading in to cherry hill as we speak. Already in upper darby along the i95 corridor and moving into jersey in a matter of minutes. Right now youre seeing the heavy rain in philadelphia. Port richmond along 95. Crossing over the bridge the walt whitman and also you can see the ben franklin into south jersey the rain already in camden and moving quickly into pennsauken. So if youre on the jersey side and you havent seen the rain just yet, just wait a couple of minutes. These rain rates at about 3inches an hour some about two and a half inches an hour. This rain is many can down really hard. Severe thunderstorm warning in effect for parts of delaware and also our suburbs in philadelphia to the north and west into new castle county, delaware are and now spreading into Gloucester County
Reporter deborah shot video of her next door neighbors home where lightning is to blame for this three alarm fire on osbourne circle in pocopsin township. There was smoke coming out of the chimney and putting a roof hole in the roof, and breaking the front windows to let the smoke come out. Reporter house sitter inside the house made it out safely and was able to save the family cat. And talk about heartbreaking. The homeowners who were out of up to had just signed a contract to sell the home list the at 1. 1 million. Were lookin looking at aboue 50,000 damage to the structure and probably 250,000 if not more to the contents. Reporter weather made fighting the fire even tougher and since there were no hydrants nearby, fire crews had to truck in pumped water from local ponds. Fire Officials Say the particle board in the attic helped fuel the fire. Once the fire condition that particle board is gone worse than pack of matches. Reporter as fire crews continued to mop up the mess, the home
Reporter deborah shot video of her next door neighbors home where lightning is to blame for this three alarm fire on osbourne circle in pocopsin township. There was smoke coming out of the chimney and putting a roof hole in the roof, and breaking the front windows to let the smoke come out. Reporter house sitter inside the house made it out safely and was able to save the family cat. And talk about heartbreaking. The homeowners who were out of up to had just signed a contract to sell the home list the at 1. 1 million. Were lookin looking at aboue 50,000 damage to the structure and probably 250,000 if not more to the contents. Reporter weather made fighting the fire even tougher and since there were no hydrants nearby, fire crews had to truck in pumped water from local ponds. Fire Officials Say the particle board in the attic helped fuel the fire. Once the fire condition that particle board is gone worse than pack of matches. Reporter as fire crews continued to mop up the mess, the home
Powerlines and lightning sparks fires. Tonight the cleanup is under way. Im ukee washington. And im jessica dean. Authorities in Chester County say five homes were struck by lightning. This one of the homes believed to be hit. Since there are no fire hydrants in that area, firefighters had to get water from ponds and water tankers were called in to help. The owners were away at the time. A house sitter escaped unharmed. Also in Chester County heavy winds knocked over trees and powerlines. This was the scene in devon. Lauren casey has a closer look at where the storms hit hardest. We had numerous storm reports. You can see all of these symbols indicating that tree kind of falling over the house, that is indicative of wind damage, whether that be downed powerlines, downed trees or structural damage. You can see how many we had when those severe storms came rolling through this afternoon or evening, we saw a few homes hit by lightning unfortunately in Chester County as well as ocean count