Alert archive / Maryland / 2016
Weather alerts in Maryland, January 2016
55 weather alerts in January 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 January 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 55
- Warnings
- 10
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 26
- Busiest day
- January 21, 20168 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 8:12 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | 5 hr | |
| Jan 3, 12:25 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | 26 hr | |
| Jan 8, 2:41 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | LWX | Allegany | 20 hr |
| Jan 9, 2:38 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 31 hr |
| Jan 9, 5:06 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | LWX | Anne Arundel | 4 hr |
| Jan 9, 10:33 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | LWX | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Harford, Saint Mary's, City of Baltimore | 25 hr |
| Jan 10, 3:29 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | Allegany, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford, Howard and 2 more | 15 hr |
| Jan 10, 3:31 AM EST | Wind Advisory | PBZ | 14 hr | |
| Jan 10, 6:02 AM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 9 hr |
| Jan 10, 10:37 AM EST | Coastal Flood Warning | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico | 9 hr |
| Jan 10, 2:09 PM EST | Coastal Flood Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel | 8 hr |
| Jan 11, 2:37 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | 40 hr | |
| Jan 11, 5:59 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | Allegany | 28 hr |
| Jan 12, 3:31 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles and 8 more | 20 hr |
| Jan 12, 12:52 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | Allegany | 21 hr |
| Jan 12, 3:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Garrett | 119 min |
| Jan 12, 3:30 PM EST | Wind Advisory | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 12 hr |
| Jan 12, 7:06 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil | 84 min |
| Jan 16, 8:26 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | PBZ | 8 hr | |
| Jan 17, 3:44 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | Allegany, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford, Howard and 3 more | 56 hr |
| Jan 17, 4:04 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | PBZ | 57 hr | |
| Jan 17, 12:55 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PHI | Caroline, Talbot | 6 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:19 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | PBZ | 24 hr | |
| Jan 20, 10:13 AM EST | Blizzard Watch | LWX | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles, Frederick and 6 more | 26 hr |
| Jan 20, 10:13 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | LWX | Allegany, Washington | 26 hr |
| Jan 20, 11:14 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's and 1 more | 14 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:17 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico | 36 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:21 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 37 hr |
| Jan 21, 3:16 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | PBZ | 64 hr | |
| Jan 21, 10:27 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico | 66 hr |
| Jan 21, 10:37 AM EST | Blizzard Watch | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 18 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:09 PM EST | Blizzard Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles, Frederick and 6 more | 60 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:09 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | Allegany, Washington | 58 hr |
| Jan 21, 3:40 PM EST | High Wind Watch | AKQ | Worcester | 24 hr |
| Jan 21, 3:41 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | AKQ | Worcester | 33 hr |
| Jan 21, 5:31 PM EST | Coastal Flood Watch | AKQ | Worcester | 22 hr |
| Jan 22, 4:16 AM EST | Blizzard Warning | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 44 hr |
| Jan 22, 4:24 AM EST | High Wind Warning | AKQ | Worcester | 47 hr |
| Jan 22, 11:05 AM EST | High Wind Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Harford, Saint Mary's, City of Baltimore | 31 hr |
| Jan 22, 12:34 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:56 PM EST | Coastal Flood Warning | AKQ | Worcester | 44 hr |
| Jan 22, 4:42 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, Saint Mary's | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 5:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 3 hr |
| Jan 22, 6:47 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Garrett | 5 hr |
| Jan 22, 9:56 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 23, 4:20 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Frederick and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 23, 4:37 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | AKQ | Worcester | 24 hr |
| Jan 23, 8:51 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Frederick, Harford, Howard and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 23, 12:44 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Frederick and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 6:40 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 25, 4:49 AM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | LWX | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Harford, Saint Mary's, City of Baltimore | 19 hr |
| Jan 26, 1:29 AM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | LWX | Allegany, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford, Howard and 3 more | 10 hr |
| Jan 26, 5:16 AM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | PHI | Cecil | 6 hr |
| Jan 28, 1:35 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | 27 hr | |
| Jan 28, 6:47 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | Allegany | 22 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 | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 8 |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Winter | |
| Blizzard Warning | 2 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 3 |
| Blizzard Watch | 2 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 4 |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 4 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 10 |
| Cold | |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 2 |
| High Wind Watch | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 4 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Warning | 3 |
| Coastal Flood Watch | 1 |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Anne Arundel County14
- Baltimore County14
- Harford County14
- Cecil County13
- City of Baltimore13
- Howard County13
- Montgomery County13
- Talbot County12
- Frederick County12
- Allegany County11
- Calvert County11
- Carroll County11
- Caroline County10
- Kent County10
- Queen Anne's County10
- Saint Mary's County10
- Washington County10
- Prince George's County10
- Charles County9
- Worcester County7
- Dorchester County5
- Somerset County5
- Wicomico County4
- Garrett County3
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.