Alert archive / Massachusetts / 2012
Weather alerts in Massachusetts, March 2012
42 weather alerts in March 2012, 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 March 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 42
- Warnings
- 9
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 22
- Busiest day
- March 14, 20127 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 29, 11:17 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkshire | 4 hr |
| Feb 29, 11:52 PM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 5 hr | |
| Mar 2, 3:54 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 18 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:01 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 20 hr |
| Mar 4, 11:48 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | BOX | 4 hr | |
| Mar 4, 3:37 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 48 hr | |
| Mar 6, 3:15 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 25 hr | |
| Mar 7, 4:03 AM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 12 hr | |
| Mar 7, 4:00 PM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 37 hr | |
| Mar 7, 4:15 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more | 35 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:41 AM EST | Wind Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 15 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:39 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 47 hr | |
| Mar 9, 4:06 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 24 hr | |
| Mar 9, 7:33 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Berkshire | 57 min |
| Mar 11, 4:04 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 19 hr | |
| Mar 11, 11:24 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | BOX | 17 hr | |
| Mar 12, 4:19 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | BOX | 53 hr | |
| Mar 13, 10:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 45 min |
| Mar 13, 10:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Franklin | 39 min |
| Mar 13, 11:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Franklin | 39 min |
| Mar 13, 11:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Worcester | 40 min |
| Mar 14, 12:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 50 min |
| Mar 14, 12:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex, Worcester | 47 min |
| Mar 14, 1:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 51 min |
| Mar 15, 7:45 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | BOX | 15 hr | |
| Mar 20, 3:54 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and 3 more | 18 hr |
| Mar 21, 4:04 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Plymouth | 18 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:52 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOX | Essex, Franklin, Middlesex, Worcester | 12 hr |
| Mar 23, 4:02 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 16 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:46 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | BOX | 19 hr | |
| Mar 25, 4:10 AM EDT | Gale Watch | BOX | 12 hr | |
| Mar 25, 10:35 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 6 hr | |
| Mar 25, 4:08 PM EDT | Gale Warning | BOX | 34 hr | |
| Mar 26, 3:16 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | ALY | Berkshire | 13 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:06 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 6 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 26, 10:43 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 31 hr | |
| Mar 27, 1:50 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more | 17 hr |
| Mar 27, 4:00 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 15 hr |
| Mar 28, 4:07 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 61 hr | |
| Mar 28, 6:02 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 47 hr | |
| Mar 29, 4:03 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 22 hr | |
| Mar 30, 5:10 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 35 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 | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 3 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 5 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 2 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 3 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 3 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 2 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 3 |
| Gale Watch | 2 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 11 |
| Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | 5 |
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.