Heat, Delaware Beaches
- When
- February 28, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Delaware Beaches forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 38.683, -75.339 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat in Delaware, February 28, 1998
Continuing a trend that lasted the whole winter, February 1998 was unseasonably warm across the Delmarva Peninsula and ranked within the ten warmest Februarys on record. It was also an unseasonably wet month, especially across the lower half of the peninsula in Kent and Sussex Counties.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 4 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
Continuing a trend that lasted the whole winter, February 1998 was unseasonably warm across the Delmarva Peninsula and ranked within the ten warmest Februarys on record. It was also an unseasonably wet month, especially across the lower half of the peninsula in Kent and Sussex Counties. At the New Castle County Airport near Wilmington, the mean temperature of 41.0 degrees for February was the 3rd warmest February of this century.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
4 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Heat, Inland Sussex
- When
- February 28, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Inland Sussex forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 38.683, -75.339 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, Kent
- When
- February 28, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Kent forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.096, -75.505 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heat, New Castle
- When
- February 28, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- New Castle forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.578, -75.639 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Heat
- Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Florida, February 28, 1998
- Flooding in Florida, February 28, 1998
- Hail in Florida, February 28, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Florida, February 28, 1998
- Heat in New Jersey, February 28, 1998
- Heat in Pennsylvania, February 28, 1998
- Winter Storm in Iowa, February 28, 1998
- Hail in Georgia, February 28, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, February 28, 1998
- Heat in Maryland, February 28, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, February 28, 1998
- Hail in Ohio, February 28, 1998
More
Every storm in Delaware in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Delaware, February 1998
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5631739, 5631740, 5631741, 5631742.