Flood Watches in Delaware
110 flood watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 110
- Busiest year
- 202310 flood watches
- Average year
- 5over 21 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
The latest flood watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 2:21 AM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | New Castle | 34 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:31 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | New Castle | 35 hr |
| Aug 19, 2:08 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | New Castle | 31 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:20 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | New Castle | 26 hr |
| Jul 27, 2:15 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | New Castle | 38 hr |
| Jul 20, 2:44 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | New Castle | 31 hr |
| Jul 17, 1:40 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | New Castle | 33 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:09 AM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | New Castle | 19 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:33 AM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | New Castle | 41 hr |
| Jun 22, 2:13 AM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | New Castle | 25 hr |
Nearby
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.