Weather alerts in Massachusetts, 1988
30 weather alerts in 1988, 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 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 30
- Warnings
- 30
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- June15 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 22, 19887 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 66 min |
| Jun 22, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 43 min |
| Jun 22, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin | 70 min |
| Jun 22, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 59 min |
| Jun 22, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 55 min |
| Jun 22, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampshire | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex, Suffolk | 58 min |
| Jun 22, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk | 58 min |
| Jun 22, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 61 min |
| Jul 11, 9:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 69 min |
| Jul 11, 10:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 31 min |
| Jul 11, 11:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 44 min |
| Jul 12, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 72 min |
| Jul 14, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 67 min |
| Jul 16, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 66 min |
| Jul 16, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 60 min |
| Jul 17, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 76 min |
| Jul 28, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk | 68 min |
| Jul 30, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 59 min |
| Aug 12, 5:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 55 min |
| Aug 12, 6:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 10:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 69 min |
| Aug 15, 12:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 61 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 | 30 |
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
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19871989
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.