Weather alerts in Massachusetts, October 2012

66 weather alerts in October 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 October 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 66
Warnings: 16
Watches: 10
Advisories: 33
Busiest day: October 30, 201218 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
Oct 3, 3:55 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket	17 hr
Oct 4, 6:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Hampden	119 min
Oct 4, 7:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Hampden	59 min
Oct 4, 11:17 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more	10 hr
Oct 5, 12:26 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	10 hr
Oct 5, 3:31 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		34 hr
Oct 6, 6:12 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		6 hr
Oct 7, 4:07 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		12 hr
Oct 8, 4:09 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		5 days
Oct 10, 4:23 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		34 hr
Oct 11, 4:17 AM EDT	Freeze Watch	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more	23 hr
Oct 11, 2:57 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	ALY	Berkshire	13 hr
Oct 11, 3:50 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		38 hr
Oct 12, 3:22 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		27 hr
Oct 12, 3:37 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	BOX	Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	29 hr
Oct 12, 3:37 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 3 more	30 hr
Oct 12, 4:08 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	ALY	Berkshire	29 hr
Oct 13, 2:03 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		4 days
Oct 15, 3:43 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		40 hr
Oct 17, 10:41 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		30 hr
Oct 18, 4:46 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		4 days
Oct 19, 6:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	3 hr
Oct 19, 6:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	3 hr
Oct 19, 11:50 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and 2 more	115 min
Oct 19, 11:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Bristol, Dukes, Plymouth	92 min
Oct 20, 12:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Plymouth	3 hr
Oct 20, 2:21 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	BOX	Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth	2 hr
Oct 20, 3:11 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk	3 hr
Oct 20, 3:25 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol	3 hr
Oct 20, 4:00 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		12 hr
Oct 26, 4:36 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		24 hr
Oct 27, 4:22 PM EDT	Flood Watch	ALY	Berkshire	59 hr
Oct 27, 4:23 PM EDT	High Wind Watch	ALY	Berkshire	12 hr
Oct 27, 4:50 PM EDT	High Wind Watch	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more	21 hr
Oct 27, 4:51 PM EDT	Flood Watch	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester	56 hr
Oct 27, 4:56 PM EDT	Hurricane Force Wind Watch	BOX		12 hr
Oct 27, 4:56 PM EDT	Storm Watch	BOX		12 hr
Oct 27, 5:34 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Watch	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk and 2 more	14 hr
Oct 28, 4:23 AM EDT	High Wind Warning	ALY	Berkshire	47 hr
Oct 28, 4:32 AM EDT	Hurricane Force Wind Warning	BOX		45 hr
Oct 28, 4:32 AM EDT	Storm Warning	BOX		48 hr
Oct 28, 4:38 AM EDT	High Wind Warning	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more	44 hr
Oct 28, 4:50 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Warning	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk and 2 more	53 hr
Oct 29, 7:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Plymouth	3 hr
Oct 30, 12:33 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more	13 hr
Oct 30, 3:34 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	13 hr
Oct 30, 3:54 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth and 1 more	9 hr
Oct 30, 4:35 AM EDT	Gale Warning	BOX		9 hr
Oct 30, 5:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Bristol, Middlesex, Norfolk	60 min
Oct 30, 5:51 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more	114 min
Oct 30, 7:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Bristol, Norfolk	90 min
Oct 30, 8:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk	27 min
Oct 30, 1:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		41 min
Oct 30, 2:03 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		38 hr
Oct 30, 6:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk, Worcester	3 hr
Oct 30, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		66 min
Oct 30, 6:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Bristol, Plymouth	2 hr
Oct 30, 7:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Dukes	2 hr
Oct 30, 7:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		56 min
Oct 30, 7:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Plymouth	41 min
Oct 30, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth	51 min
Oct 30, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		55 min
Oct 30, 8:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	83 min
Oct 30, 8:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	41 min
Oct 30, 8:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		35 min
Oct 31, 2:03 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Plymouth	2 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	2
Mesoscale Discussion	2
Special Weather Statement	5
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	1
Flash Flood Watch	1
Flood Watch	2
Areal Flood Advisory	12
Cold
Freeze Warning	2
Freeze Watch	2
Frost Advisory	1
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	2
High Wind Watch	2
Wind Advisory	2
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	3
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	1
Coastal Flood Watch	1
Coastal Flood Advisory	1
Marine
Gale Warning	1
Hurricane Force Wind Warning	1
Special Marine Warning	5
Storm Warning	1
Hurricane Force Wind Watch	1
Storm Watch	1
Small Craft Advisory	12
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	2

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.