Weather alerts in Massachusetts, October 2016

63 weather alerts in October 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 October 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 63
Warnings: 17
Watches: 6
Advisories: 32
Busiest day: October 21, 20169 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 1, 6:37 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	113 min
Oct 2, 10:18 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		4 hr
Oct 3, 4:12 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		3 days
Oct 3, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Hampshire	52 min
Oct 3, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Worcester	59 min
Oct 3, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Hampden	56 min
Oct 7, 7:35 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		8 hr
Oct 8, 4:01 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		60 hr
Oct 8, 3:40 PM EDT	Gale Watch	BOX		12 hr
Oct 9, 4:05 AM EDT	Gale Warning	BOX		39 hr
Oct 9, 3:57 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket	24 hr
Oct 10, 3:12 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	ALY	Berkshire	30 hr
Oct 10, 3:56 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Worcester	29 hr
Oct 10, 3:56 AM EDT	Freeze Watch	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester	12 hr
Oct 10, 3:45 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester	17 hr
Oct 10, 3:54 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		11 hr
Oct 11, 3:22 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		17 hr
Oct 12, 4:05 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		60 hr
Oct 13, 3:28 AM EDT	Freeze Watch	BOX	Bristol, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth	24 hr
Oct 14, 3:43 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth and 1 more	29 hr
Oct 14, 3:43 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth	29 hr
Oct 15, 3:54 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		12 hr
Oct 15, 4:01 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		4 days
Oct 17, 3:55 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		48 hr
Oct 18, 3:53 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	BOX	Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	5 hr
Oct 18, 9:16 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Plymouth	2 hr
Oct 18, 9:16 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	BOX	Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	6 hr
Oct 19, 10:48 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	BOX	Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	5 hr
Oct 20, 4:03 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		24 hr
Oct 20, 4:17 PM EDT	Gale Watch	BOX		12 hr
Oct 21, 4:14 AM EDT	Gale Warning	BOX		66 hr
Oct 21, 12:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	63 min
Oct 21, 1:11 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	BOX	Barnstable, Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	6 hr
Oct 21, 1:11 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	BOX	Nantucket	6 hr
Oct 21, 5:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk, Worcester	119 min
Oct 21, 6:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Worcester	113 min
Oct 21, 6:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Worcester	2 hr
Oct 21, 7:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk, Worcester	118 min
Oct 21, 7:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Worcester	113 min
Oct 21, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk	52 min
Oct 21, 8:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk, Worcester	2 hr
Oct 21, 8:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk, Worcester	2 hr
Oct 21, 9:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Worcester	3 hr
Oct 21, 9:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	3 hr
Oct 21, 9:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	2 hr
Oct 21, 10:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth	2 hr
Oct 22, 3:05 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	39 hr
Oct 22, 4:04 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more	38 hr
Oct 22, 9:16 PM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	8 hr
Oct 23, 5:59 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		3 days
Oct 24, 3:37 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		40 hr
Oct 24, 3:58 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth	13 hr
Oct 25, 4:39 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth	28 hr
Oct 26, 4:24 AM EDT	Gale Watch	BOX		24 hr
Oct 26, 4:12 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	17 hr
Oct 26, 4:12 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	BOX	Bristol, Middlesex, Plymouth	17 hr
Oct 27, 4:34 AM EDT	Gale Warning	BOX		48 hr
Oct 27, 4:47 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket and 3 more	46 hr
Oct 28, 4:51 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		59 hr
Oct 28, 10:06 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	BOX	Essex	13 hr
Oct 29, 5:16 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		34 hr
Oct 30, 4:13 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		40 hr
Oct 31, 4:04 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		11 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	1
Special Weather Statement	4
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	5
Flash Flood Warning	3
Areal Flood Advisory	4
Winter
Winter Weather Advisory	1
Cold
Freeze Warning	5
Freeze Watch	3
Frost Advisory	3
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	5
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Advisory	2
Coastal Flood Statement	4
Marine
Gale Warning	3
Gale Watch	3
Small Craft Advisory	13
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	4

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.