Alert archive / Delaware / 2008
Weather alerts in Delaware, May 2008
19 weather alerts in May 2008, 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 19
- Warnings
- 5
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 31, 20086 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 11:52 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 15 hr |
| May 7, 10:21 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 4 hr |
| May 8, 2:47 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | New Castle | 19 hr |
| May 9, 10:54 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Sussex | 5 hr |
| May 10, 9:05 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Sussex | 6 hr |
| May 11, 3:37 AM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | New Castle | 30 hr |
| May 11, 5:15 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Watch | PHI | Sussex | 10 hr |
| May 11, 5:15 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 10 hr |
| May 11, 3:34 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 40 hr |
| May 11, 9:06 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | PHI | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 19 hr |
| May 12, 10:25 AM EDT | High Wind Warning | PHI | Sussex | 6 hr |
| May 12, 3:55 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 4 hr |
| May 18, 4:45 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Sussex | 6 hr |
| May 31, 8:54 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | New Castle | 96 min |
| May 31, 10:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle | 7 hr |
| May 31, 10:25 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 7 hr |
| May 31, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 54 min |
| May 31, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 47 min |
| May 31, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 64 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 | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flood Watch | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 2 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Warning | 1 |
| Coastal Flood Watch | 1 |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 3 |
| Coastal Flood Statement | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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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.