Weather alerts in Delaware, 1998
40 weather alerts in 1998, 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 40
- Warnings
- 30
- Watches
- 10
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- June18 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 26, 19986 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 23, 7:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | New Castle | 3 hr |
| Feb 23, 10:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | New Castle | 105 min |
| Mar 9, 8:41 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | New Castle | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:38 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | New Castle | 6 hr |
| Mar 21, 4:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | New Castle | 6 hr |
| Apr 1, 7:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 5 hr |
| Apr 1, 9:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 32 min |
| Apr 9, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 6 hr |
| May 21, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 33 min |
| May 29, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 1:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 7 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 7 hr |
| Jun 16, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | New Castle | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 7 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 6:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Sussex | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 63 min |
| Jun 30, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Kent | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Kent | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 47 min |
| Aug 18, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 60 min |
| Sep 2, 9:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 44 min |
| Sep 2, 9:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 26 min |
| Sep 2, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 43 min |
| Sep 2, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 50 min |
| Sep 7, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 45 min |
| Sep 7, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 60 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 | 22 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 8 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 7 |
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
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19971999
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.