Alert archive / Maine / 2012
Weather alerts in Maine, May 2012
50 weather alerts in May 2012, 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 50
- Warnings
- 6
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 21
- Busiest day
- May 17, 201212 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, 2:56 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 25 hr | |
| May 2, 3:32 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | GYX | 8 hr | |
| May 6, 3:11 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington | 15 hr |
| May 6, 6:38 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York | 135 days |
| May 7, 6:58 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York | 191 days |
| May 8, 3:03 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 64 hr | |
| May 8, 3:14 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, York | 29 days |
| May 9, 1:44 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | GYX | 69 hr | |
| May 10, 3:32 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | CAR | 54 hr | |
| May 13, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 43 min |
| May 13, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 39 min |
| May 13, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Oxford | 49 min |
| May 13, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Oxford | 43 min |
| May 15, 3:06 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 48 hr | |
| May 15, 3:39 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 35 hr | |
| May 16, 1:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Franklin, Oxford | 9 hr |
| May 16, 2:51 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | CAR | 17 hr | |
| May 16, 6:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Oxford | 84 min |
| May 16, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin, Somerset | 38 min |
| May 16, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 41 min |
| May 16, 8:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Oxford, York | 63 min |
| May 16, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Oxford | 40 min |
| May 16, 9:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | York | 49 min |
| May 16, 10:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 42 min |
| May 16, 10:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin, Kennebec | 39 min |
| May 16, 11:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Kennebec, Waldo | 37 min |
| May 17, 1:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Waldo | 50 min |
| May 17, 2:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot | 47 min |
| May 17, 3:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 44 min |
| May 17, 3:06 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 27 hr |
| May 17, 3:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Washington | 24 min |
| May 17, 3:02 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset | 15 hr |
| May 22, 3:31 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | GYX | 26 hr | |
| May 22, 3:35 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | CAR | 24 hr | |
| May 25, 4:15 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | GYX | 17 hr | |
| May 25, 9:37 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 12 hr | |
| May 26, 9:25 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset | 16 hr |
| May 29, 2:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin, Oxford | 58 min |
| May 29, 4:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Cumberland | 48 min |
| May 29, 4:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland, Oxford, York | 40 min |
| May 29, 4:42 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 63 min | |
| May 29, 4:53 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, Oxford, York | 82 min |
| May 29, 5:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Cumberland | 59 min |
| May 29, 6:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | GYX | Oxford | 17 hr |
| May 29, 6:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Oxford | 44 min |
| May 29, 10:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Oxford | 49 min |
| May 29, 1:11 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 9 hr | |
| May 29, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 44 min |
| May 29, 7:06 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | CAR | 17 hr | |
| May 29, 8:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Oxford | 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 | 5 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 17 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| Cold | |
| Frost Advisory | 4 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Coastal Flood Statement | 2 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 1 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 6 |
| Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | 8 |
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.