Alert archive / Maine / 2016
Weather alerts in Maine, May 2016
39 weather alerts in May 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 39
- Warnings
- 5
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 20
- Busiest day
- May 6, 20164 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, 3:40 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | GYX | 26 hr | |
| May 2, 4:31 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 10 hr | |
| May 2, 2:53 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 14 hr | |
| May 4, 3:36 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 59 hr | |
| May 4, 11:35 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 51 hr | |
| May 5, 12:04 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Cumberland, York | 3 hr |
| May 5, 3:03 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, York | 9 hr |
| May 6, 3:50 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Watch | GYX | Cumberland, York | 11 hr |
| May 6, 4:00 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | GYX | 35 hr | |
| May 6, 2:42 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, York | 11 hr |
| May 6, 2:59 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | CAR | 25 hr | |
| May 7, 3:20 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Cumberland, York | 12 hr |
| May 8, 3:13 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 48 hr | |
| May 8, 3:37 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 47 hr | |
| May 8, 6:23 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Cumberland, York | 9 hr |
| May 10, 4:02 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | CAR | 15 hr | |
| May 11, 7:23 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | CAR | 12 hr | |
| May 14, 3:01 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 62 hr | |
| May 14, 3:45 PM EDT | Gale Watch | GYX | 24 hr | |
| May 14, 3:45 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 24 hr | |
| May 15, 3:48 PM EDT | Gale Warning | GYX | 28 hr | |
| May 15, 3:48 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 28 hr | |
| May 16, 9:06 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Aroostook | 3 hr |
| May 16, 3:05 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | GYX | Oxford | 17 hr |
| May 22, 3:03 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 24 hr | |
| May 22, 3:31 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 26 hr | |
| May 22, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 25 min |
| May 23, 3:18 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | GYX | 15 hr | |
| May 23, 5:36 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | CAR | 7 hr | |
| May 25, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot, Piscataquis | 22 min |
| May 25, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot | 30 min |
| May 25, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Aroostook | 2 hr |
| May 27, 8:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin, Somerset | 63 min |
| May 27, 9:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 57 min |
| May 27, 10:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 53 min |
| May 30, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | 46 min | |
| May 30, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Oxford | 36 min |
| May 30, 7:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 31 min |
| May 31, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 51 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 Warning | 3 |
| Special Weather Statement | 8 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 1 |
| Cold | |
| Frost Advisory | 1 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 1 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Watch | 1 |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| Coastal Flood Statement | 3 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 1 |
| Gale Watch | 1 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 11 |
| Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | 5 |
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.