Alert archive / Connecticut / 1998
Weather alerts in Connecticut, May 1998
16 weather alerts in May 1998, 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 in May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 16
- Warnings
- 11
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 29, 199810 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 47 min |
| May 10, 7:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 12 hr |
| May 20, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 59 min |
| May 29, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr | |
| May 29, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr | |
| May 29, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 80 min |
| May 29, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 46 min |
| May 29, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 49 min |
| May 29, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | 42 min | |
| May 29, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 60 min |
| May 29, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 62 min |
| May 29, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 62 min |
| May 29, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 46 min |
| May 31, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr | |
| May 31, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr | |
| May 31, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 10 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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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.