Weather alerts in Connecticut, May 2018

42 weather alerts in May 2018, 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 42
Warnings: 19
Watches: 4
Advisories: 5
Busiest day: May 15, 201827 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 3, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		42 min
May 3, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		38 min
May 3, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	45 min
May 3, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		42 min
May 4, 5:52 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		83 min
May 4, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Capitol Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region	4 hr
May 4, 8:50 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		85 min
May 4, 9:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		35 min
May 9, 1:55 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	7 hr
May 15, 11:43 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		3 hr
May 15, 1:03 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Northwest Hills Planning Region	4 hr
May 15, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	9 hr
May 15, 1:58 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		2 hr
May 15, 2:23 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	4 hr
May 15, 2:38 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		2 hr
May 15, 2:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	33 min
May 15, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	62 min
May 15, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	54 min
May 15, 3:33 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		117 min
May 15, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	56 min
May 15, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	86 min
May 15, 3:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	24 min
May 15, 3:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	22 min
May 15, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	59 min
May 15, 4:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	28 min
May 15, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	32 min
May 15, 4:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	2 hr
May 15, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	63 min
May 15, 4:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	32 min
May 15, 4:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	19 min
May 15, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	54 min
May 15, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	17 min
May 15, 5:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	23 min
May 15, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	47 min
May 15, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX		59 min
May 15, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	27 min
May 16, 7:01 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	19 hr
May 18, 4:23 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	23 hr
May 19, 9:29 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	5 hr
May 24, 9:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		113 min
May 25, 1:21 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	6 hr
May 29, 9:49 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	11 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	12
Tornado Warning	7
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	2
Tornado Watch	2
Mesoscale Discussion	6
Special Weather Statement	6
Flooding
Areal Flood Advisory	1
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	4
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Statement	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.