Alert archive / Maine / 2008
Weather alerts in Maine, May 2008
17 weather alerts in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 17
- Warnings
- 4
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 29, 20083 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 10:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | CAR | Aroostook | 12 hr |
| May 1, 12:13 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 27 hr |
| May 2, 11:47 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington | 24 hr |
| May 4, 10:35 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | York | 85 min |
| May 6, 9:40 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Cumberland, York | 46 min |
| May 6, 10:26 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, York | 4 hr |
| May 7, 10:52 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | GYX | Cumberland | 3 hr |
| May 12, 3:52 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | GYX | 27 hr | |
| May 19, 4:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAR | Aroostook | 2 hr |
| May 19, 6:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot | 6 hr |
| May 24, 3:25 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset | 15 hr |
| May 27, 11:20 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Hancock, Kennebec, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 2 more | 115 min |
| May 27, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cumberland, York | 8 hr |
| May 29, 9:27 AM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | GYX | 10 hr | |
| May 29, 9:35 AM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | CAR | 8 hr | |
| May 29, 3:45 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset | 12 hr |
| May 31, 11:24 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 66 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 Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
| River Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 1 |
| Fire | |
| Fire Weather Watch | 3 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| Coastal Flood Statement | 2 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine 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.