Alert archive / Massachusetts / 2024
Weather alerts in Massachusetts, May 2024
53 weather alerts in May 2024, 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 53
- Warnings
- 33
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 8, 202429 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 7, 9:02 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 2:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkshire, Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and 5 more | 2 hr |
| May 8, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Berkshire | 31 min |
| May 8, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Berkshire | 24 min |
| May 8, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampshire | 48 min |
| May 8, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 34 min |
| May 8, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 43 min |
| May 8, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 26 min |
| May 8, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampshire | 40 min |
| May 8, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 49 min |
| May 8, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Berkshire | 31 min |
| May 8, 3:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 46 min |
| May 8, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 63 min |
| May 8, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 45 min |
| May 8, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Berkshire | 34 min |
| May 8, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Norfolk, Worcester | 53 min |
| May 8, 4:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Berkshire | 12 min |
| May 8, 4:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bristol, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk and 1 more | 91 min |
| May 8, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Norfolk, Worcester | 31 min |
| May 8, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 39 min | |
| May 8, 6:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 65 min | |
| May 8, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol | 50 min |
| May 8, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Barnstable | 17 min |
| May 8, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 58 min | |
| May 8, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 50 min |
| May 8, 7:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 59 min | |
| May 8, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol | 35 min |
| May 8, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 62 min | |
| May 8, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 39 min |
| May 8, 8:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 41 min | |
| May 8, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Plymouth | 50 min |
| May 8, 8:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 63 min | |
| May 8, 8:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 56 min | |
| May 8, 9:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol | 28 min |
| May 8, 9:48 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 35 min | |
| May 8, 9:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 40 min | |
| May 8, 10:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 50 min | |
| May 9, 6:08 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 34 hr | |
| May 11, 3:45 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 40 hr | |
| May 14, 3:03 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 4 hr | |
| May 15, 3:14 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 5 days | |
| May 16, 5:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol | 85 min |
| May 16, 6:28 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 3 hr |
| May 16, 9:08 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 3 hr |
| May 21, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin | 42 min |
| May 21, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin | 46 min |
| May 21, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 28 min |
| May 21, 6:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Franklin | 58 min |
| May 23, 10:11 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Plymouth | 2 hr |
| May 23, 11:38 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol | 4 hr |
| May 26, 3:15 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 62 hr | |
| May 27, 1:06 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Plymouth | 10 hr |
| May 30, 3:25 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 19 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 | 18 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 3 |
| Special Weather Statement | 8 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 2 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Statement | 1 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 11 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 6 |
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.