100 first-hand accounts of flood events in Delaware, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A nearly stationary frontal boundary and a low pressure system moving along it combined to develop thunderstorms that produced isolated damaging wind gusts as well as flash flooding in northern Delaware.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms preceding a cold front caused flash flooding in eastern New Castle County overnight on the 20th. Rainfall amounts since the early morning on the 20th averaged two to three inches in the county.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms, particularly during the late afternoon and early evening on the 27th brought very heavy rain to the northern half of Delaware and caused poor drainage and some river flooding.
Read the full account →An area of moderate to heavy rain with isolated thunderstorms moved through Delaware during the first half of the day on the 20th. One to two inches of rain fell throughout the state with the most widespread heavier amounts in New Castle County.
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