Weather alerts in Massachusetts, December 2022

59 weather alerts in December 2022, 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 59
Warnings: 14
Watches: 12
Advisories: 27
Busiest day: December 21, 20229 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
Dec 1, 6:53 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		8 hr
Dec 2, 2:58 AM EST	Gale Watch	BOX		12 hr
Dec 2, 3:22 PM EST	Gale Warning	BOX		33 hr
Dec 4, 12:41 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		15 hr
Dec 6, 3:13 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		8 days
Dec 8, 4:24 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		9 hr
Dec 8, 3:19 PM EST	Gale Watch	BOX		13 hr
Dec 9, 4:01 AM EST	Gale Warning	BOX		23 hr
Dec 9, 4:01 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		33 hr
Dec 10, 2:45 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	48 hr
Dec 10, 3:25 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester	36 hr
Dec 11, 3:22 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		36 hr
Dec 12, 2:47 PM EST	Gale Watch	BOX		13 hr
Dec 13, 3:26 AM EST	Gale Warning	BOX		43 hr
Dec 13, 3:26 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		48 hr
Dec 13, 4:04 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	ALY	Berkshire	22 hr
Dec 14, 1:27 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Middlesex, Suffolk	33 min
Dec 14, 1:51 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk, Worcester	39 min
Dec 14, 2:10 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	ALY	Berkshire	13 hr
Dec 14, 2:10 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	64 hr
Dec 14, 2:42 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire	13 hr
Dec 15, 3:25 AM EST	Gale Warning	BOX		60 hr
Dec 15, 3:25 AM EST	Wind Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket and 3 more	42 hr
Dec 15, 3:26 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire	52 hr
Dec 15, 3:26 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Middlesex, Worcester	52 hr
Dec 16, 3:30 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		4 days
Dec 18, 9:39 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		69 hr
Dec 18, 2:35 PM EST	Gale Warning	BOX		25 hr
Dec 18, 2:35 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		40 hr
Dec 20, 2:44 PM EST	Coastal Flood Watch	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk and 2 more	37 hr
Dec 21, 3:24 AM EST	Gale Watch	BOX		12 hr
Dec 21, 3:24 AM EST	Storm Watch	BOX		18 hr
Dec 21, 3:25 AM EST	High Wind Watch	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket and 3 more	11 hr
Dec 21, 2:52 PM EST	Flood Watch	ALY	Berkshire	55 hr
Dec 21, 2:53 PM EST	High Wind Watch	BOX	Middlesex, Worcester	13 hr
Dec 21, 2:53 PM EST	High Wind Warning	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket and 3 more	58 hr
Dec 21, 2:53 PM EST	Wind Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester	53 hr
Dec 21, 3:04 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	32 hr
Dec 21, 3:12 PM EST	Wind Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	60 hr
Dec 21, 9:50 PM EST	Storm Warning	BOX		51 hr
Dec 22, 3:55 AM EST	Coastal Flood Warning	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk and 2 more	34 hr
Dec 22, 4:00 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire	23 hr
Dec 22, 10:49 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	6 hr
Dec 23, 4:08 AM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	32 hr
Dec 23, 10:56 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BOX	Franklin	11 hr
Dec 23, 11:38 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Franklin	3 hr
Dec 23, 3:05 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	55 min
Dec 23, 4:04 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	9 hr
Dec 23, 4:09 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	51 min
Dec 23, 10:21 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Middlesex	24 min
Dec 24, 12:49 AM EST	Gale Warning	BOX		42 hr
Dec 24, 3:55 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		6 days
Dec 24, 5:04 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Dukes	86 min
Dec 24, 7:15 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket	20 hr
Dec 24, 9:11 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	BOX	Dukes	18 hr
Dec 27, 9:57 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		39 hr
Dec 30, 7:00 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		44 hr
Dec 31, 3:37 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		35 hr
Dec 31, 1:36 PM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Plymouth	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
Special Weather Statement	6
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	1
River Flood Warning	1
Flood Watch	1
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Watch	3
Winter Weather Advisory	8
Cold
Wind Chill Advisory	1
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	1
High Wind Watch	2
Wind Advisory	3
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	1
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	1
Coastal Flood Watch	1
Marine
Gale Warning	6
Storm Warning	1
Gale Watch	4
Storm Watch	1
Small Craft Advisory	14

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.