Weather alerts in Connecticut, December 2008

88 weather alerts in December 2008, 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 December 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 88
Warnings: 21
Watches: 13
Advisories: 45
Busiest day: December 12, 200818 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
Dec 7, 2:38 AM EST	Wind Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	24 hr
Dec 7, 4:13 AM EST	Wind Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	20 hr
Dec 7, 4:32 AM EST	Wind Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	19 hr
Dec 9, 10:17 AM EST	Wind Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	18 hr
Dec 9, 3:56 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	25 hr
Dec 9, 4:04 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	24 hr
Dec 9, 4:13 PM EST	Wind Advisory	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	30 hr
Dec 10, 2:49 PM EST	Flood Watch	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	39 hr
Dec 10, 3:21 PM EST	Flood Watch	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	46 hr
Dec 10, 3:51 PM EST	Flood Watch	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	43 hr
Dec 10, 3:52 PM EST	Ice Storm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	45 hr
Dec 10, 4:19 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	32 hr
Dec 10, 4:47 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	37 hr
Dec 10, 4:47 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	37 hr
Dec 11, 4:36 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	24 hr
Dec 11, 7:30 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		4 hr
Dec 11, 3:31 PM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	20 hr
Dec 11, 10:01 PM EST	River Flood Warning	ALY	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	65 hr
Dec 11, 10:05 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	4 hr
Dec 12, 12:00 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	12 hr
Dec 12, 12:07 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	6 hr
Dec 12, 12:08 AM EST	River Flood Warning	ALY	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region	34 hr
Dec 12, 1:27 AM EST	River Flood Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	4 days
Dec 12, 1:55 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	6 hr
Dec 12, 3:31 AM EST	River Flood Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	4 days
Dec 12, 4:11 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	6 hr
Dec 12, 4:44 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	4 hr
Dec 12, 4:58 AM EST	River Flood Warning	OKX	Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	19 hr
Dec 12, 8:03 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	44 hr
Dec 12, 9:00 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	10 hr
Dec 12, 9:48 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region	3 days
Dec 12, 9:48 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region	4 days
Dec 12, 10:03 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	117 min
Dec 12, 12:19 PM EST	River Flood Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	32 hr
Dec 12, 6:14 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	8 hr
Dec 16, 4:01 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	32 hr
Dec 16, 4:12 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	32 hr
Dec 16, 5:27 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	33 hr
Dec 16, 11:55 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		4 hr
Dec 17, 6:36 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		4 hr
Dec 17, 3:04 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	32 hr
Dec 17, 3:07 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	24 hr
Dec 17, 3:19 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	23 hr
Dec 18, 2:16 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	35 hr
Dec 18, 3:07 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	35 hr
Dec 18, 4:12 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	29 hr
Dec 18, 4:12 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	37 hr
Dec 19, 12:22 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		6 hr
Dec 19, 4:22 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	21 hr
Dec 19, 4:29 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	24 hr
Dec 19, 4:39 PM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	12 hr
Dec 19, 4:50 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	24 hr
Dec 19, 6:46 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		4 hr
Dec 20, 1:13 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	28 hr
Dec 20, 4:08 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	27 hr
Dec 20, 4:29 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	26 hr
Dec 21, 4:11 AM EST	Wind Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	13 hr
Dec 21, 4:16 AM EST	Wind Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	31 hr
Dec 21, 4:38 AM EST	Wind Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	31 hr
Dec 21, 6:35 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		4 hr
Dec 21, 9:56 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	20 hr
Dec 21, 11:47 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	12 hr
Dec 23, 4:17 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	38 hr
Dec 23, 3:58 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	21 hr
Dec 23, 4:09 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	18 hr
Dec 24, 3:25 AM EST	Flood Watch	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	25 hr
Dec 24, 7:32 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		4 hr
Dec 24, 4:06 PM EST	Wind Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	17 hr
Dec 26, 3:55 AM EST	Freezing Rain Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	27 hr
Dec 26, 3:46 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	19 hr
Dec 27, 3:50 PM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	17 hr
Dec 28, 1:13 AM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	5 hr
Dec 28, 2:06 AM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	8 hr
Dec 28, 3:52 AM EST	Wind Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	18 hr
Dec 28, 9:47 AM EST	Wind Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	8 hr
Dec 29, 3:30 PM EST	Wind Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	21 hr
Dec 29, 3:54 PM EST	Wind Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	23 hr
Dec 30, 12:35 AM EST	Wind Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	11 hr
Dec 30, 11:40 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	5 hr
Dec 30, 1:13 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	27 hr
Dec 30, 3:53 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	28 hr
Dec 30, 4:55 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	32 hr
Dec 31, 3:53 AM EST	High Wind Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	21 hr
Dec 31, 4:00 AM EST	Wind Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	19 hr
Dec 31, 4:47 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	15 hr
Dec 31, 7:06 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		3 hr
Dec 31, 11:50 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		3 hr
Dec 31, 3:21 PM EST	Wind Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	10 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
Mesoscale Discussion	9
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	4
River Flood Warning	9
Flood Watch	4
Areal Flood Advisory	5
Winter
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	6
Winter Storm Watch	9
Freezing Rain Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	18
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	1
Wind Advisory	16
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	3
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood 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.