Sleet in Delaware
Every sleet event the National Weather Service has filed in Delaware, year by year, with the most significant episodes. Sleet accumulating half an inch or more.
The most significant on the map
The most significant sleet episodes in Delaware.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 12
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- None recorded
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Sleet in Delaware, January 20 to 21, 2001A vigorous upper air disturbance coupled with a low pressure system that was intensifying east of the New Jersey coast produced a wintry mix across the state of Delaware. Precipitation began as rain across the state during the afternoon of the 20th.
- Winter Storm and Sleet in Delaware, January 19 to 20, 2002A weak low pressure system that moved through the Gulf Coast States and exited quickly off the North Carolina coast had sufficient moisture and came close enough to the peninsula to give the region a wintry mix of snow, sleet and rain for most of the 19th.
- Sleet and Winter Weather in Delaware, January 9, 1997Double barrel low pressure systems spread a mixture of sleet and freezing rain across the northern half of Delaware. Precipitation started briefly as light snow across northern New Castle County. Precipitation spread across the area by noon on the 9th.
- Winter Storm and Sleet in Delaware, January 30, 2000A low pressure system developed in the western Gulf of Mexico during the day on the 28th. It slowly moved eastnortheast and by Sunday morning the 30th was located near Apalachicola, Florida, not too far from the location of the January 25th storm.
- Sleet in Delaware, February 12 to 13, 2001A weak low pressure system developed from an inverted trough off the south Atlantic Coast the morning of the 12th. As the low moved off the North Carolina coast during the evening of the 12th, moisture spilled north into Delaware.
- Sleet in Delaware, March 4 to 5, 2001An intensifying low pressure system brought a wintry mix of precipitation to New Castle County on the 4th and 5th. Precipitation began as rain across the region around daybreak on the 4th.
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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.