Alert archive / Maine / 2009

Weather alerts in Maine, May 2009

79 weather alerts in May 2009, 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 79
Warnings: 34
Watches: 4
Advisories: 40
Busiest day: May 31, 200916 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, 3:21 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		6 hr
May 1, 9:45 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	CAR		36 hr
May 1, 10:15 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		8 hr
May 5, 3:05 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	CAR		19 hr
May 5, 2:10 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		13 hr
May 5, 10:04 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		8 hr
May 6, 3:20 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	GYX		8 hr
May 6, 6:07 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	CAR		9 hr
May 6, 2:32 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		25 hr
May 6, 3:25 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	CAR		36 hr
May 7, 4:45 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CAR	Aroostook	3 hr
May 9, 3:12 AM EDT	Gale Watch	GYX		24 hr
May 9, 3:13 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		43 hr
May 9, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Oxford	42 min
May 9, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Oxford, York	6 hr
May 9, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Oxford	33 min
May 9, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	York	48 min
May 9, 6:47 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	York	88 min
May 9, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Oxford, York	45 min
May 9, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Cumberland, York	43 min
May 9, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GYX		38 min
May 10, 3:03 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		17 hr
May 10, 10:31 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	CAR		5 hr
May 12, 3:13 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	CAR	Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington	12 hr
May 13, 2:50 AM EDT	Gale Watch	GYX		12 hr
May 13, 3:22 AM EDT	Gale Watch	CAR		11 hr
May 13, 2:30 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	CAR		47 min
May 13, 2:39 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	CAR	Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Washington	22 hr
May 13, 3:00 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		12 hr
May 13, 3:17 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		13 hr
May 14, 3:12 AM EDT	Gale Warning	GYX		17 hr
May 14, 3:19 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 5 more	17 hr
May 14, 3:54 AM EDT	Gale Warning	CAR		12 hr
May 14, 1:04 PM EDT	High Wind Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Washington	9 hr
May 14, 4:19 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		18 hr
May 14, 8:19 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		19 hr
May 15, 5:53 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		4 hr
May 15, 10:03 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	CAR		5 hr
May 16, 3:13 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		12 hr
May 16, 9:20 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		27 hr
May 16, 2:44 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	CAR		28 hr
May 18, 3:06 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 5 more	28 hr
May 18, 4:47 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	CAR	Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington	24 hr
May 18, 4:47 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset	24 hr
May 20, 2:57 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		43 hr
May 20, 3:47 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		34 hr
May 21, 9:09 AM EDT	Red Flag Warning	CAR		11 hr
May 22, 2:15 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	GYX		13 hr
May 22, 9:32 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	CAR		5 hr
May 22, 2:57 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington	13 hr
May 22, 2:57 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset	13 hr
May 24, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	40 min
May 24, 2:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	29 min
May 24, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	15 min
May 24, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	30 min
May 24, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	16 min
May 25, 3:08 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset and 2 more	28 hr
May 25, 4:00 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	CAR	Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington	23 hr
May 25, 4:00 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset	26 hr
May 29, 10:12 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CAR	Hancock, Washington	11 hr
May 30, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	21 min
May 30, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	50 min
May 30, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Washington	45 min
May 31, 3:59 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		35 hr
May 31, 2:10 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		22 hr
May 31, 2:17 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	GYX	Cumberland, Franklin, Oxford, Somerset, York	17 hr
May 31, 2:17 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	GYX	Oxford	17 hr
May 31, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Oxford	23 min
May 31, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Piscataquis, Somerset	43 min
May 31, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Somerset	32 min
May 31, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset	42 min
May 31, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis	44 min
May 31, 4:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot	37 min
May 31, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot	27 min
May 31, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	45 min
May 31, 5:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAR	Aroostook	35 min
May 31, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Franklin, Somerset	40 min
May 31, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	19 min
May 31, 6:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAR	Aroostook	3 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	22
Tornado Warning	2
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	1
Mesoscale Discussion	1
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	1
Cold
Freeze Warning	4
Frost Advisory	7
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	1
Wind Advisory	2
Fire
Red Flag Warning	1
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	2
Marine
Gale Warning	2
Special Marine Warning	1
Gale Watch	3
Small Craft Advisory	18
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	11

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.