Weather alerts in Massachusetts, December 2015

56 weather alerts in December 2015, 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 December 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 56
Warnings: 5
Watches: 6
Advisories: 42
Busiest day: December 20, 20155 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
Nov 30, 10:34 PM EST	Freezing Rain Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire	13 hr
Nov 30, 10:50 PM EST	Freezing Rain Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	13 hr
Dec 1, 4:29 PM EST	Gale Watch	BOX		11 hr
Dec 2, 12:58 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		2 hr
Dec 2, 3:07 AM EST	Gale Warning	BOX		43 hr
Dec 2, 3:03 PM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth	4 hr
Dec 3, 7:13 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		15 hr
Dec 6, 7:22 AM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	5 hr
Dec 7, 3:13 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		45 hr
Dec 9, 12:01 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		48 hr
Dec 10, 3:57 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		2 hr
Dec 10, 10:19 PM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 5 more	11 hr
Dec 11, 9:01 AM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 6 more	2 hr
Dec 11, 4:02 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		6 hr
Dec 13, 3:47 PM EST	Gale Watch	BOX		23 hr
Dec 13, 3:47 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		23 hr
Dec 14, 11:21 AM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more	13 hr
Dec 14, 2:32 PM EST	Gale Warning	BOX		29 hr
Dec 14, 3:03 PM EST	Wind Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more	26 hr
Dec 14, 3:23 PM EST	Wind Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	26 hr
Dec 15, 2:34 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	41 min
Dec 15, 7:27 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		69 hr
Dec 16, 3:34 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		36 hr
Dec 17, 3:36 PM EST	Gale Watch	BOX		25 hr
Dec 18, 4:02 AM EST	Gale Warning	BOX		48 hr
Dec 19, 10:20 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		3 hr
Dec 20, 4:17 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		9 hr
Dec 20, 1:01 PM EST	Gale Watch	BOX		15 hr
Dec 20, 1:01 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		119 min
Dec 20, 1:01 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		15 hr
Dec 21, 3:20 AM EST	Wind Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk and 2 more	13 hr
Dec 21, 4:15 AM EST	Gale Warning	BOX		12 hr
Dec 21, 4:04 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		4 days
Dec 22, 4:21 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		3 days
Dec 22, 9:30 PM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	12 hr
Dec 23, 2:44 AM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and 3 more	7 hr
Dec 23, 4:30 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		39 hr
Dec 24, 4:02 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		22 hr
Dec 24, 5:39 PM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and 4 more	15 hr
Dec 25, 10:00 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		5 hr
Dec 25, 3:17 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		13 hr
Dec 26, 4:15 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		48 hr
Dec 27, 4:11 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		35 hr
Dec 27, 9:11 AM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Plymouth	3 hr
Dec 27, 3:10 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more	46 hr
Dec 27, 3:12 PM EST	Gale Watch	BOX		13 hr
Dec 27, 3:43 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	51 hr
Dec 28, 4:23 AM EST	Gale Warning	BOX		36 hr
Dec 28, 4:23 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		36 hr
Dec 28, 3:08 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire	12 hr
Dec 28, 10:25 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire	6 hr
Dec 29, 3:42 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester	6 hr
Dec 29, 1:06 PM EST	Freezing Rain Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more	9 hr
Dec 29, 4:26 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		6 days
Dec 30, 3:49 AM EST	Freezing Rain Advisory	BOX	Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk and 2 more	23 hr
Dec 30, 12:50 PM EST	Freezing Rain Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	14 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	2
Special Weather Statement	1
Winter
Winter Storm Watch	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	2
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	3
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	9
Marine
Gale Warning	5
Gale Watch	5
Small Craft Advisory	21
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.

Nearby

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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.