Weather alerts in Delaware, 1997
33 weather alerts in 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 33
- Warnings
- 23
- Watches
- 10
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- June8 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 13, 19974 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 1:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 12:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 48 min |
| May 1, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, Sussex | 6 hr |
| May 1, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | New Castle | 6 hr |
| May 1, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 32 min |
| May 6, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | New Castle | 5 hr |
| May 6, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 30 min |
| May 6, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 1:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | New Castle | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | New Castle | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 5 hr |
| Jun 18, 10:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 64 min |
| Jul 4, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 6 hr |
| Jul 16, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 47 min |
| Jul 16, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 48 min |
| Jul 18, 9:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 44 min |
| Jul 28, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle | 5 hr |
| Aug 13, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 51 min |
| Aug 13, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 61 min |
| Aug 17, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 11:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 11:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 32 min |
| Sep 1, 2:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex | 65 min |
| Sep 1, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 65 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 20 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 9 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.