Weather alerts in Connecticut, May 2006

20 weather alerts in May 2006, 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 20
Warnings: 7
Watches: 7
Advisories: 2
Busiest day: May 21, 20065 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 1, 2:43 AM EDT	Red Flag Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	16 hr
May 1, 3:49 AM EDT	Red Flag Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	15 hr
May 11, 2:02 PM EDT	Flood Watch	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	5 days
May 11, 3:52 PM EDT	Flood Watch	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	4 days
May 11, 4:31 PM EDT	Flood Watch	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	36 hr
May 14, 3:18 PM EDT	Flood Watch	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	24 hr
May 14, 3:43 PM EDT	Flood Watch	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	24 hr
May 16, 9:57 AM EDT	Flood Watch	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	12 hr
May 21, 3:44 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		91 min
May 21, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	24 min
May 21, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	27 min
May 21, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	42 min
May 21, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	34 min
May 26, 12:10 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		2 hr
May 26, 8:03 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	8 hr
May 27, 9:31 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	53 min
May 27, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	29 min
May 30, 1:21 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		114 min
May 30, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Northwest Hills Planning Region	7 hr
May 30, 6:19 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		56 min

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	5
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	1
Mesoscale Discussion	4
Flooding
Flood Watch	6
Fire
Red Flag Warning	2
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	2

By county

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

Nearby

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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.