Alert archive / Maine / 2020
Weather alerts in Maine, March 2020
74 weather alerts in March 2020, 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 March 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 74
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 11
- Advisories
- 41
- Busiest day
- March 3, 20209 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 1:09 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 26 hr | |
| Mar 1, 2:45 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 13 hr | |
| Mar 1, 3:24 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 35 hr | |
| Mar 2, 3:05 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 25 hr | |
| Mar 2, 7:01 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | CAR | Aroostook | 9 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:48 AM EST | Gale Watch | GYX | 12 hr | |
| Mar 3, 3:42 AM EST | Gale Watch | CAR | 11 hr | |
| Mar 3, 3:49 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 24 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:49 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset | 24 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:42 PM EST | Gale Warning | GYX | 31 hr | |
| Mar 3, 2:43 PM EST | Gale Warning | CAR | 39 hr | |
| Mar 3, 2:45 PM EST | Wind Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Washington | 27 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:51 PM EST | Wind Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 5 more | 27 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:33 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Aroostook | 11 hr |
| Mar 4, 9:25 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 9 hr | |
| Mar 4, 10:08 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 17 hr | |
| Mar 5, 6:02 AM EST | Gale Watch | CAR | 21 hr | |
| Mar 5, 6:02 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 15 hr | |
| Mar 5, 2:52 PM EST | Gale Watch | GYX | 12 hr | |
| Mar 6, 3:00 AM EST | Gale Warning | GYX | 38 hr | |
| Mar 6, 3:18 AM EST | Gale Warning | CAR | 38 hr | |
| Mar 7, 1:07 AM EST | Storm Warning | GYX | 6 hr | |
| Mar 7, 3:23 AM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, York | 7 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:49 AM EST | Coastal Flood Statement | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 4:52 AM EST | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo | 5 hr |
| Mar 7, 4:50 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 12 hr | |
| Mar 7, 5:45 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 17 hr | |
| Mar 8, 8:38 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 6 hr | |
| Mar 9, 3:16 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset | 43 hr |
| Mar 10, 3:03 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 32 hr | |
| Mar 10, 3:30 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 31 hr | |
| Mar 10, 3:35 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Cumberland, York | 9 hr |
| Mar 12, 3:36 AM EDT | Gale Watch | CAR | 12 hr | |
| Mar 12, 3:48 AM EDT | Gale Watch | GYX | 12 hr | |
| Mar 12, 3:22 PM EDT | Gale Warning | GYX | 46 hr | |
| Mar 12, 3:38 PM EDT | Gale Warning | CAR | 48 hr | |
| Mar 12, 3:39 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 28 hr |
| Mar 12, 3:39 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset | 28 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:32 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | CAR | Hancock, Washington | 13 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:49 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, York | 13 hr |
| Mar 13, 8:13 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 35 hr | |
| Mar 13, 10:38 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 34 hr | |
| Mar 14, 3:18 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset | 15 hr |
| Mar 14, 3:23 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 15 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:28 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 60 hr | |
| Mar 16, 3:54 AM EDT | Gale Watch | CAR | 24 hr | |
| Mar 16, 3:16 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 40 hr | |
| Mar 17, 3:28 AM EDT | Gale Warning | CAR | 12 hr | |
| Mar 18, 3:20 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 4 days | |
| Mar 19, 4:59 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 3 days | |
| Mar 20, 6:04 PM EDT | Gale Warning | GYX | 9 hr | |
| Mar 22, 3:36 AM EDT | Winter Storm Watch | GYX | Cumberland, Oxford, York | 24 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:57 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 47 hr | |
| Mar 23, 3:24 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 59 hr | |
| Mar 23, 3:50 AM EDT | Winter Storm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford and 3 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:50 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford and 4 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 23, 9:31 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington | 23 hr |
| Mar 23, 2:27 PM EDT | Gale Warning | GYX | 11 hr | |
| Mar 23, 3:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Oxford, Sagadahoc, York | 6 hr |
| Mar 23, 9:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Lincoln and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 10:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Hancock | 114 min |
| Mar 24, 12:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CAR | Hancock | 2 hr |
| Mar 24, 1:49 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 16 hr | |
| Mar 25, 2:32 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 55 hr | |
| Mar 26, 2:56 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 31 hr | |
| Mar 28, 3:15 AM EDT | Winter Storm Watch | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 24 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:09 PM EDT | Winter Storm Watch | CAR | Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset | 12 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:19 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 3 days | |
| Mar 29, 3:16 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 24 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:31 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 71 hr | |
| Mar 29, 3:31 AM EDT | Winter Storm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset | 36 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:31 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis | 36 hr |
| Mar 29, 6:13 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot | 22 hr |
| Mar 29, 8:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | York | 42 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 | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 3 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 4 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 9 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| Coastal Flood Statement | 4 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 9 |
| Storm Warning | 1 |
| Gale Watch | 7 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 25 |
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.