Weather alerts in Massachusetts, May 2016

55 weather alerts in May 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 55
Warnings: 8
Watches: 3
Advisories: 29
Busiest day: May 14, 20166 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 1, 3:56 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		46 hr
May 1, 3:56 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		24 hr
May 3, 9:37 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		42 hr
May 5, 4:03 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	21 hr
May 5, 4:06 AM EDT	Gale Warning	BOX		24 hr
May 6, 4:17 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		4 days
May 6, 4:25 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	22 hr
May 7, 4:03 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		10 hr
May 7, 3:52 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	BOX	Barnstable, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	11 hr
May 7, 4:07 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		28 hr
May 7, 10:01 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	BOX	Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	5 hr
May 8, 3:43 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		31 hr
May 9, 3:56 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk and 2 more	27 hr
May 9, 3:32 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex	16 hr
May 10, 3:40 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	27 hr
May 10, 3:32 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire	15 hr
May 14, 4:17 AM EDT	Gale Watch	BOX		12 hr
May 14, 4:17 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		55 hr
May 14, 4:09 PM EDT	Gale Watch	BOX		12 hr
May 14, 4:09 PM EDT	Gale Warning	BOX		51 hr
May 14, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	56 min
May 14, 7:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	34 min
May 14, 8:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire	47 min
May 14, 9:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Franklin	43 min
May 16, 11:14 AM EDT	Gale Warning	BOX		8 hr
May 16, 11:14 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		5 hr
May 16, 7:00 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		9 hr
May 17, 2:44 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		5 hr
May 18, 9:27 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		3 hr
May 20, 4:07 PM EDT	Gale Watch	BOX		12 hr
May 21, 3:46 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		48 hr
May 22, 3:58 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		22 hr
May 22, 4:38 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Nantucket	17 hr
May 22, 3:49 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		12 hr
May 23, 3:58 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		15 hr
May 24, 5:05 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		23 hr
May 27, 4:33 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		27 hr
May 27, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Hampden	50 min
May 27, 5:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Hampden	115 min
May 28, 5:47 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		58 min
May 29, 1:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	66 min
May 29, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	65 min
May 29, 2:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	3 hr
May 29, 2:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Berkshire	3 hr
May 29, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Berkshire	57 min
May 30, 6:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth	114 min
May 30, 7:12 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Plymouth	2 hr
May 30, 9:25 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Plymouth	50 min
May 30, 11:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Nantucket	89 min
May 30, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	64 min
May 30, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	48 min
May 30, 8:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	114 min
May 30, 8:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Hampshire	62 min
May 30, 8:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	41 min
May 30, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Hampden	48 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	1
Special Weather Statement	13
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	1
Flash Flood Warning	1
Areal Flood Advisory	5
Cold
Freeze Warning	1
Frost Advisory	3
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Advisory	3
Coastal Flood Statement	1
Rip Current Statement	1
Marine
Gale Warning	3
Special Marine Warning	1
Gale Watch	3
Small Craft Advisory	12
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	6

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. Rebuilt daily.