Flood, New Castle
- When
- March 6, 1:15 PM EST to 3:55 PM EST
- Where
- New Castle forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 39.578, -75.639 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Delaware, March 6, 2003
The combination of precipitation that fell on the second, fifth and sixth and snow melt helped cause minor flooding along the Christina River during the afternoon of the 6th. m.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 1
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.
The combination of precipitation that fell on the second, fifth and sixth and snow melt helped cause minor flooding along the Christina River during the afternoon of the 6th. The Christina River at Coochs Bridge was above its 9 foot flood stage from 115 p.m. through 355 p.m. EST on the 6th. It crested at 9.15 feet at 245 p.m. EST on the 6th.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 6, 10:55 AM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 10:55 AM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1055 AM EST THU MAR 6 2003
PLANNING A MINOR ZONE UPDATE TO ADJUST DAYTIME TEMPS A BIT...AND
REMOVE THE ALREADY CHGD PCPN TYPES.
NO CHGS TO ADVY AREA FOR NOW. WSW WAS ALREADY UPDATED.
KRAUS
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THE WINTER WX ADVY CONTS WHERE IT WAS ALREADY IN PLACE.
THE MODELS ARE IN MUCH CLOSER AGREEMENT THAN THE WED 12Z RUN...
EXCEPT THE GFS REMAINS A BIT COLDER IN THE LOWER LAYERS. HOWEVER THE
QPF AMTS HAVE BCM MORE SIMILAR ALTHO THE ETA STILL SEEMS OVERDONE
SPCLY N...AS THE BEST CONVTN SEEMS TO BE HEADING TWD THE CNTRL MID
ATLC CST.
FOR THE NRN ZONES MIXED PCPN SHUD GO OVER THIS MRNG TO S/IP...AND
HPC/S THEME OF 3 TO 5 INCHES SOUNDS GOOD...WL JUST EXTEND THAT
RANGE A BIT TO 3 TO 6 ON THE OFF CHANCE THE ETA IS MORE CORRECT...AS
WELL ASDUE TO TERRAIN EFFECTS.
FURTHER S...N AND W OF PHL TO S AND E...WL HAVE TO WAIT FOR COLDER
AIR TO MOVE S AT LATE MRNG AND ERY AFTN...RAIN TIL THEN SHUD MIX
THEN CHG TO SLEET/SOME SNOW BFR ENDING BY MID AFTN. WL CONT WITH A
1-2 INCH THEME SPCLY N AND W OF PHL...BUT PBLY LESS THAN THAT WL
OCCUR.
WL ALSO MENTION SOME ZR IN VIEW OF HPC/S THINKING BUT THIS IS A
STRETCH AS GROUND IS RELATIVELY WARM AND TEMPS WL LIKELY NOT MAKE IT
TO FRZG...BUT CUD BE CLOSE SPCLY N AND W OF PHL.
RAIN FOR THE SRN THIRD OF THE CWA SHUD BE HVY AT TIMES...TOYED
WITH THE IDEA OF SOME KIND OF URBAN/SMALL STREAM FLD ADVY BUT IT MAY
BE BETTER TO JUST HANDLE ANY UPPITY STREAMS LIKE COOCHES WITH LOCAL
STATEMENTS.
ON THE EXTDD THE PCPN SAT WAS MOVD BACK TO SAT NITE AS A FNT APCHS
THE AREA...CUD BE SOME SPITS SAT BUT THOUGHT THE MORE SUBSTANTIAL
PCPN WUD BE SAT NITE AND PSBLY EVEN INTO SUN...LEFT IT SAT NITE FOR
NOW WITH A 50 POP.
THE SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY WILL CONTINUE ON THE OCEAN AND LOWER BAY.
.PHI...WINT WX ADVY THIS AFTN PA54,55,60-62,67-71
NJ1,7-10,12-20,26,27 DE1, MD8
SML CRAFT ADVY CST AND LWR DE BAY.Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 6, 4:45 AM EST, 8 hours 30 minutes before
DEZ001>004-MDZ008-012-015-019-020-NJZ001-007>010-012>027-PAZ054-055- 060>062-067>071-061200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 445 AM EST THU MAR 6 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...DELAWARE...THE NORTHERN MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE...AND NEW JERSEY EXCLUDING THE FIVE NORTHEAST COUNTIES. .DAY ONE...TODAY A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE AREA FOR MIXED PRECIPITATION CHANGING TO SLEET AND SNOW...ACCUMULATING 3 TO 6 INCHES NORTH AND UP TO 2 INCHES CENTRAL...AND ENDING BY MID AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes in Alabama, March 6, 2003
- Winter Storm in Massachusetts, March 6, 2003
- Winter Storm in Rhode Island, March 6, 2003
- Winter Storm in Connecticut, March 6, 2003
- Flood in South Carolina, March 6, 2003
- Heavy Snow in New York, March 6, 2003
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, March 6, 2003
- Hail in Mississippi, March 6 to 7, 2003
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in New Jersey, March 6, 2003
- Winter Storm in Montana, March 6 to 10, 2003
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, March 6, 2003
- Heavy Snow in New York, March 6, 2003
More
Every storm in Delaware in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Delaware, March 2003
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: 5352424.