Alert archive

Weather alerts in Connecticut

14,430 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
14,430
Warnings
4,493
Watches
1,469
Advisories
4,061
Busiest year
2018850 alerts
Average year
352over 41 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 product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 13, 10:08 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXLower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region4 hr
Sep 13, 9:06 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region3 hr
Sep 13, 8:29 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region4 hr
Sep 13, 7:23 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region4 hr
Sep 13, 7:06 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region5 hr
Aug 27, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region38 min
Aug 27, 11:09 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region51 min
Aug 13, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNortheastern Connecticut Planning Region44 min
Aug 13, 12:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region48 min
Aug 11, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNaugatuck Valley Planning Region40 min
Aug 8, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region45 min
Aug 8, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNortheastern Connecticut Planning Region13 min

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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.