Alert archive / Delaware / 2016
Weather alerts in Delaware, August 2016
43 weather alerts in August 2016, 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 August 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 43
- Warnings
- 10
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 10
- Busiest day
- August 21, 201613 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 2:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 95 min |
| Aug 1, 2:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 4 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | New Castle | 87 min |
| Aug 1, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 84 min |
| Aug 1, 5:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 4 hr |
| Aug 1, 6:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:27 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 7 hr |
| Aug 6, 12:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | New Castle | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:04 PM EDT | Excessive Heat Watch | PHI | New Castle | 24 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:20 PM EDT | Excessive Heat Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 6 days |
| Aug 11, 11:50 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 32 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:24 PM EDT | Excessive Heat Watch | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 37 hr |
| Aug 14, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 56 min |
| Aug 14, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 49 min |
| Aug 14, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 41 min |
| Aug 14, 10:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 24 min |
| Aug 15, 3:21 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 29 hr |
| Aug 15, 10:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 61 min |
| Aug 16, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | New Castle | 4 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | New Castle | 95 min |
| Aug 16, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | New Castle | 29 min |
| Aug 17, 4:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, Sussex | 64 min |
| Aug 17, 9:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, Sussex | 89 min |
| Aug 17, 10:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 10:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 61 min |
| Aug 17, 11:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 11:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 59 min |
| Aug 18, 10:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | New Castle | 47 min |
| Aug 21, 2:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | New Castle | 114 min |
| Aug 21, 3:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 2 hr |
| Aug 21, 3:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | New Castle | 118 min |
| Aug 21, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 39 min |
| Aug 21, 4:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 90 min |
| Aug 21, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 39 min |
| Aug 21, 5:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 4 hr |
| Aug 21, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 17 min |
| Aug 21, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 14 min |
| Aug 21, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 36 min |
| Aug 21, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 29 min |
| Aug 21, 6:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 7:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 26 min |
| Aug 29, 6:05 AM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | PHI | Sussex | 4 days |
| Aug 31, 5:00 AM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | NHC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 10 days |
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 | 7 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 6 |
| Special Weather Statement | 13 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 7 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 1 |
| Excessive Heat Watch | 2 |
| Heat Advisory | 2 |
| Tropical | |
| Tropical Storm Warning | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Beach Hazards Statement | 1 |
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.