Weather alerts in Massachusetts, May 2023

34 weather alerts in May 2023, 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 34
Warnings: 8
Watches: 4
Advisories: 18
Busiest day: May 16, 20236 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, 2:57 AM EDT	Gale Warning	BOX		63 min
May 1, 2:57 AM EDT	Gale Warning	BOX		9 hr
May 2, 7:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Plymouth	28 min
May 2, 9:27 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		17 hr
May 3, 3:11 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		3 days
May 9, 2:23 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk and 1 more	17 hr
May 12, 9:40 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		9 hr
May 14, 2:06 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	19 hr
May 14, 3:28 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		4 days
May 14, 6:44 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire	12 hr
May 15, 3:58 AM EDT	Fire Weather Watch	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more	40 hr
May 15, 3:59 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		3 days
May 15, 4:09 AM EDT	Fire Weather Watch	ALY	Berkshire	40 hr
May 16, 2:29 AM EDT	Red Flag Warning	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more	17 hr
May 16, 3:51 AM EDT	Red Flag Warning	ALY	Berkshire	16 hr
May 16, 2:38 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	ALY	Berkshire	21 hr
May 16, 3:26 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 3 more	25 hr
May 16, 7:45 PM EDT	Red Flag Warning	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more	24 hr
May 16, 7:59 PM EDT	Red Flag Warning	ALY	Berkshire	24 hr
May 17, 3:05 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		23 hr
May 17, 11:13 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	ALY	Berkshire	21 hr
May 17, 4:23 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	BOX	Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and 4 more	14 hr
May 17, 4:45 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		3 hr
May 19, 3:25 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		4 days
May 20, 11:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Norfolk	87 min
May 21, 2:40 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		23 hr
May 23, 3:26 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		56 hr
May 24, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Hampden	32 min
May 25, 3:25 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	29 hr
May 25, 9:42 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		78 min
May 25, 2:50 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire	16 hr
May 27, 3:45 AM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk and 2 more	16 hr
May 28, 2:17 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		15 hr
May 28, 5:27 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		30 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	3
Cold
Freeze Warning	2
Freeze Watch	2
Frost Advisory	5
Fire
Red Flag Warning	4
Fire Weather Watch	2
Coast and beach
Beach Hazards Statement	1
Marine
Gale Warning	2
Small Craft Advisory	13

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.