Alert archive / Massachusetts / 2008
Weather alerts in Massachusetts, May 2008
38 weather alerts in May 2008, 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 38
- Warnings
- 20
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 27, 200814 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 5, 4:44 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk | 2 hr |
| May 8, 5:40 AM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | BOX | 51 hr | |
| May 9, 3:55 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket | 34 hr |
| May 12, 3:46 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth | 32 hr |
| May 12, 4:12 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 19 hr |
| May 13, 11:16 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 6 hr |
| May 13, 12:26 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket | 94 min |
| May 25, 4:33 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOX | Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk and 2 more | 11 hr |
| May 26, 3:28 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | BOX | Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk and 2 more | 17 hr |
| May 27, 11:20 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 115 min |
| May 27, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkshire, Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and 5 more | 8 hr |
| May 27, 12:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 59 min |
| May 27, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 41 min |
| May 27, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Worcester | 48 min |
| May 27, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 50 min |
| May 27, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 50 min |
| May 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hampden, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcester | 90 min |
| May 27, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 119 min | |
| May 27, 4:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Hampden | 3 hr |
| May 27, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 50 min | |
| May 27, 5:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcester | 3 hr |
| May 27, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk | 25 min |
| May 27, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 27 min | |
| May 28, 11:52 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 19 hr |
| May 28, 4:33 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 13 hr |
| May 28, 4:40 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Worcester | 12 hr |
| May 29, 4:46 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | BOX | Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more | 13 hr |
| May 31, 5:19 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket | 39 hr |
| May 31, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 40 min |
| May 31, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire | 53 min |
| May 31, 5:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 26 min |
| May 31, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire | 40 min |
| May 31, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 61 min |
| May 31, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 3 hr |
| May 31, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 55 min |
| May 31, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin | 19 min |
| May 31, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 32 min |
| May 31, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 40 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 | 14 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| Cold | |
| Frost Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 3 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 3 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 3 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| High Surf Advisory | 1 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 3 |
| Marine Weather Statement | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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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.