Alert archive / Massachusetts / 2009
Weather alerts in Massachusetts, February 2009
55 weather alerts in February 2009, 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 February 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 55
- Warnings
- 11
- Watches
- 14
- Advisories
- 29
- Busiest day
- February 21, 20097 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 9:21 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | BOX | 33 hr | |
| Feb 2, 4:27 AM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 11 hr | |
| Feb 2, 3:21 PM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 31 hr | |
| Feb 2, 3:21 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 15 hr | |
| Feb 2, 4:07 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth | 13 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:40 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Hampden, Hampshire and 6 more | 22 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:47 AM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket | 14 hr |
| Feb 3, 5:07 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 66 hr | |
| Feb 4, 4:16 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 51 hr | |
| Feb 4, 4:06 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 16 hr |
| Feb 4, 4:24 PM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Watch | BOX | 11 hr | |
| Feb 5, 3:16 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Barnstable | 9 hr |
| Feb 6, 9:38 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 37 hr | |
| Feb 7, 4:15 AM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 12 hr | |
| Feb 7, 4:36 PM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 35 hr | |
| Feb 8, 7:28 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 21 hr | |
| Feb 9, 4:38 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 7 hr | |
| Feb 10, 4:02 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 36 hr | |
| Feb 11, 2:42 AM EST | Flood Watch | ALY | Berkshire | 55 hr |
| Feb 11, 4:40 AM EST | High Wind Watch | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth | 11 hr |
| Feb 11, 4:59 AM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 11 hr | |
| Feb 11, 3:22 PM EST | Wind Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 30 hr |
| Feb 11, 3:48 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 11, 4:03 PM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 39 hr | |
| Feb 13, 4:29 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 58 hr | |
| Feb 13, 10:06 AM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 11 hr | |
| Feb 14, 7:42 AM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 7 hr | |
| Feb 18, 3:46 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 31 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:02 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 48 hr | |
| Feb 18, 4:21 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 24 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:55 PM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 12 hr | |
| Feb 18, 6:28 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 4 hr |
| Feb 19, 4:00 AM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 24 hr | |
| Feb 19, 4:00 AM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 48 hr | |
| Feb 19, 4:55 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth | 3 hr |
| Feb 19, 7:06 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 9 hr |
| Feb 20, 3:32 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Nantucket | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 9:53 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 24 hr | |
| Feb 21, 4:07 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | ALY | Berkshire | 13 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:35 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 12 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:26 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 31 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:26 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Essex, Hampden, Middlesex, Worcester | 31 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:42 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 35 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:42 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 30 hr |
| Feb 21, 7:04 PM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 48 hr | |
| Feb 22, 5:11 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth and 1 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 23, 4:24 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 25 hr | |
| Feb 26, 4:16 AM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 12 hr | |
| Feb 26, 4:16 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 4 days | |
| Feb 27, 3:34 AM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester | 16 hr |
| Feb 27, 4:14 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 67 hr | |
| Feb 27, 1:55 PM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 6 hr | |
| Feb 28, 5:07 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 6 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 28, 4:14 PM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 13 hr | |
| Feb 28, 4:17 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | ALY | Berkshire | 12 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 | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flood Watch | 1 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 2 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 5 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 7 |
| Cold | |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Watch | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 6 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 9 |
| Gale Watch | 6 |
| Heavy Freezing Spray Watch | 1 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 13 |
| Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | 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.