Weather alerts in Connecticut, May 2025

45 weather alerts in May 2025, 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 45
Warnings: 14
Watches: 7
Advisories: 7
Busiest day: May 3, 202514 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 2, 1:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		45 min
May 2, 1:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		47 min
May 3, 12:14 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		2 hr
May 3, 1:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Capitol Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region	5 hr
May 3, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	59 min
May 3, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	55 min
May 3, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		47 min
May 3, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	54 min
May 3, 3:32 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		88 min
May 3, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		42 min
May 3, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	38 min
May 3, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	50 min
May 3, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	39 min
May 3, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		20 min
May 3, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	47 min
May 3, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	32 min
May 4, 1:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		28 min
May 5, 1:00 PM EDT	Flood Watch	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	37 hr
May 5, 2:01 PM EDT	Flood Watch	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	27 hr
May 6, 1:11 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	32 hr
May 6, 3:19 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region	20 hr
May 6, 4:06 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	3 hr
May 6, 2:08 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region	7 days
May 7, 3:11 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	BOX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region	7 days
May 8, 2:58 AM EDT	Flood Watch	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	53 hr
May 8, 3:53 AM EDT	Flood Watch	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	48 hr
May 8, 2:33 PM EDT	Flood Watch	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	24 hr
May 8, 4:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	3 hr
May 8, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		32 min
May 8, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		31 min
May 8, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		30 min
May 8, 5:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	100 min
May 8, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		32 min
May 8, 5:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	115 min
May 8, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		32 min
May 9, 1:28 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	23 hr
May 9, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		32 min
May 10, 5:28 AM EDT	River Flood Watch	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	45 hr
May 10, 12:04 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	46 hr
May 15, 1:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	4 hr
May 17, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		33 min
May 17, 10:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		25 min
May 21, 4:36 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	27 hr
May 22, 6:29 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	4 hr
May 26, 4:18 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	21 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	8
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	1
Mesoscale Discussion	2
Special Weather Statement	14
Flooding
River Flood Warning	6
Flood Watch	5
River Flood Watch	1
Areal Flood Advisory	5
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Advisory	2
Coastal Flood Statement	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.