Weather alerts in Massachusetts, 1986
26 weather alerts in 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 in 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 26
- Warnings
- 26
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- August16 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 8, 19869 alerts
Over time
By month
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 23, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 60 min |
| May 28, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Dukes | 60 min |
| May 28, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Nantucket | 60 min |
| May 28, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Barnstable | 50 min |
| May 31, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Berkshire | 105 min |
| Jun 1, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 9:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 67 min |
| Jul 29, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 78 min |
| Jul 30, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Dukes | 30 min |
| Jul 30, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Nantucket | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 3:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk, Suffolk | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Bristol | 58 min |
| Aug 7, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Plymouth | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Plymouth | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 11:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 11:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk | 72 min |
| Aug 8, 11:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 68 min |
| Aug 8, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 65 min |
| Aug 8, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Barnstable | 65 min |
| Aug 8, 4:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 5:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Essex | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 8:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 50 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 | 21 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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.