Alert archive

Weather alerts in Maryland

27,606 weather alerts since 1986, 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 since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
27,606
Warnings
12,023
Watches
2,480
Advisories
5,770
Busiest year
20112,027 alerts
Average year
673over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 22, 2:57 PM EDTCoastal Flood WarningAKQDorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester65 hr
Sep 13, 4:43 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQWorcester3 hr
Sep 12, 4:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXGarrett3 hr
Sep 4, 4:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCharles, Prince George's27 min
Sep 4, 1:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXGarrett41 min
Sep 4, 2:18 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQSomerset27 min
Sep 4, 12:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICaroline, Talbot53 min
Sep 4, 12:18 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatPHICaroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot42 min
Sep 3, 11:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPHICaroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot61 min
Sep 3, 11:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLWXAnne Arundel, Calvert, Prince George's49 min
Sep 3, 11:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLWXMontgomery, Prince George's38 min
Sep 3, 11:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXMontgomery47 min

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.