Weather alerts in Massachusetts, May 1998

29 weather alerts in May 1998, 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 29
Warnings: 26
Watches: 3
Advisories: 0
Busiest day: May 31, 199814 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 6, 8:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Hampden	3 hr
May 20, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	34 min
May 20, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampshire	48 min
May 20, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin	30 min
May 20, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin, Worcester	62 min
May 29, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Berkshire, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 3 more	6 hr
May 29, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	65 min
May 29, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire	31 min
May 29, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin	29 min
May 29, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	35 min
May 29, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	46 min
May 29, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire	46 min
May 29, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Worcester	42 min
May 29, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Worcester	62 min
May 29, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk	44 min
May 31, 11:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	47 min
May 31, 11:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Middlesex	44 min
May 31, 12:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Essex	44 min
May 31, 3:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Berkshire, Franklin	5 hr
May 31, 5:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Berkshire	74 min
May 31, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire	60 min
May 31, 5:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BOX	Franklin	50 min
May 31, 5:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BOX	Hampshire	46 min
May 31, 5:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bristol, Essex, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk and 3 more	5 hr
May 31, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	47 min
May 31, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Middlesex	47 min
May 31, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin	32 min
May 31, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Essex	61 min
May 31, 7:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Berkshire	73 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	4
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	1
Tornado Watch	2
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	1

By county

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

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 1997 1999

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.