Alert archive / Massachusetts / 2017
Weather alerts in Massachusetts, April 2017
64 weather alerts in April 2017, 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 April 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 64
- Warnings
- 15
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 24
- Busiest day
- April 6, 201710 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 8:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 6 hr |
| Apr 1, 7:20 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk | 5 hr |
| Apr 1, 8:11 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk | 4 hr |
| Apr 1, 7:22 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 3 hr | |
| Apr 1, 10:02 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 30 hr | |
| Apr 1, 11:15 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 8 days |
| Apr 3, 3:51 AM EDT | Gale Warning | BOX | 40 hr | |
| Apr 3, 3:51 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 25 hr | |
| Apr 3, 3:05 PM EDT | Flood Watch | ALY | Berkshire | 4 days |
| Apr 3, 3:55 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket | 23 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:02 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 37 hr | |
| Apr 4, 3:01 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Nantucket | 62 min |
| Apr 4, 3:38 PM EDT | Flood Watch | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more | 59 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:25 AM EDT | Gale Watch | BOX | 23 hr | |
| Apr 5, 1:11 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 3 days |
| Apr 5, 5:12 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 10 hr | |
| Apr 6, 3:21 AM EDT | Gale Warning | BOX | 22 hr | |
| Apr 6, 3:21 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 22 hr | |
| Apr 6, 3:37 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 16 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:12 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Dukes | 63 min |
| Apr 6, 4:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Berkshire | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden | 23 min |
| Apr 6, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Worcester | 32 min |
| Apr 6, 6:14 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Plymouth | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 7:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 34 min |
| Apr 6, 8:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 10:52 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 39 hr |
| Apr 6, 10:52 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Norfolk | 27 hr |
| Apr 6, 11:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 7 hr |
| Apr 7, 12:02 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 7 hr |
| Apr 7, 1:24 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 46 hr | |
| Apr 11, 1:17 PM EDT | River Flood Watch | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 24 hr |
| Apr 11, 1:17 PM EDT | River Flood Watch | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 24 hr |
| Apr 11, 1:17 PM EDT | River Flood Watch | BOX | Hampden | 24 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:02 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 3 days | |
| Apr 16, 3:53 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 18 hr | |
| Apr 16, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Berkshire | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 6:21 PM EDT | High Wind Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 79 min |
| Apr 16, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 7:03 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 3 hr | |
| Apr 17, 3:36 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 14 hr | |
| Apr 18, 3:27 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 39 hr | |
| Apr 19, 4:04 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | BOX | 27 hr | |
| Apr 20, 4:23 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 47 hr | |
| Apr 22, 3:18 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | BOX | 37 hr | |
| Apr 24, 3:58 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 5 days | |
| Apr 25, 4:51 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk and 2 more | 20 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:18 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 26, 10:38 AM EDT | Gale Warning | BOX | 5 hr | |
| Apr 26, 3:48 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket and 4 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:52 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Plymouth | 17 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:59 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | BOX | Barnstable, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk | 12 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:32 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | BOX | Barnstable, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk | 23 hr |
| Apr 28, 7:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Plymouth | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 8:34 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 41 min | |
| Apr 28, 9:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Nantucket | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 9:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Nantucket | 26 min |
| Apr 28, 9:53 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 52 min | |
| Apr 28, 10:17 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 43 min | |
| Apr 29, 3:57 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 22 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 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 3 |
| Special Weather Statement | 10 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 3 |
| River Flood Warning | 4 |
| Flood Watch | 2 |
| River Flood Watch | 3 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 2 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 3 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Statement | 6 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 3 |
| Special Marine Warning | 3 |
| Gale Watch | 1 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 15 |
| 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. Rebuilt daily.