Alert archive / Maine / 2025

Weather alerts in Maine, May 2025

53 weather alerts in May 2025, 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 53
Warnings: 9
Watches: 4
Advisories: 31
Busiest day: May 16, 202514 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 3, 3:32 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GYX	Kennebec, Somerset, Waldo	4 hr
May 3, 4:01 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CAR	Hancock, Penobscot, Washington	5 hr
May 3, 1:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	York	5 hr
May 3, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GYX		56 min
May 3, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	York	28 min
May 3, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	York	35 min
May 3, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GYX		58 min
May 3, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GYX		84 min
May 7, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Oxford	40 min
May 7, 9:13 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CAR	Hancock, Washington	12 hr
May 8, 2:50 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		3 days
May 8, 4:56 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GYX	Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo	3 hr
May 8, 4:34 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		62 hr
May 8, 8:41 PM EDT	Flood Watch	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Oxford, York	42 hr
May 10, 11:09 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Cumberland	3 hr
May 10, 11:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Oxford, Sagadahoc	2 hr
May 11, 2:32 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 4 more	15 hr
May 11, 3:07 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	CAR	Hancock, Penobscot, Washington	15 hr
May 15, 9:32 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 2 more	11 hr
May 16, 1:20 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CAR	Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington	8 hr
May 16, 2:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Piscataquis	3 hr
May 16, 2:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Piscataquis	3 hr
May 16, 2:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Somerset	117 min
May 16, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR		45 min
May 16, 3:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Franklin, Oxford	3 hr
May 16, 3:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Piscataquis	52 min
May 16, 3:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset	47 min
May 16, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR		39 min
May 16, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Aroostook	47 min
May 16, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Aroostook	53 min
May 16, 4:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset	94 min
May 16, 4:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAR	Piscataquis	91 min
May 16, 9:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Oxford	62 min
May 16, 10:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Franklin, Oxford	3 hr
May 18, 2:47 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		60 hr
May 19, 2:27 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		34 hr
May 20, 2:00 PM EDT	Gale Watch	CAR		13 hr
May 20, 2:23 PM EDT	Gale Watch	GYX		12 hr
May 21, 2:44 AM EDT	Gale Warning	GYX		56 hr
May 21, 2:44 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		16 hr
May 21, 3:04 AM EDT	Gale Warning	CAR		56 hr
May 21, 3:04 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		12 hr
May 21, 3:42 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	GYX	Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York	35 hr
May 22, 3:18 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	CAR	Hancock, Washington	31 hr
May 23, 4:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington	99 min
May 23, 10:46 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		24 hr
May 23, 10:47 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		24 hr
May 26, 3:32 AM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	GYX	Knox, Waldo	13 hr
May 26, 3:51 AM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	CAR	Hancock, Washington	13 hr
May 26, 3:01 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	GYX	Cumberland, Sagadahoc, York	10 hr
May 27, 3:07 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	GYX	Cumberland, York	11 hr
May 30, 3:24 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		3 days
May 31, 2:53 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		55 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	2
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	1
Special Weather Statement	5
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	2
Flood Watch	1
Areal Flood Advisory	11
Cold
Frost Advisory	2
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	2
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	6
Coast and beach
Beach Hazards Statement	2
Coastal Flood Statement	2
Marine
Gale Warning	2
Special Marine Warning	3
Gale Watch	2
Small Craft Advisory	10

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.