Alert archive / Massachusetts / Dukes County
Weather alerts in Dukes County, Massachusetts, 2014
79 weather alerts in 2014, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Dukes County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 79
- Warnings
- 10
- Watches
- 15
- Advisories
- 37
- Busiest month
- January18 alerts
- Busiest day
- March 25, 20145 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Dukes County, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2 | 0% | |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Boston/Norton, MA: tornado warnings | 8 | 0 | 100% | 14 | 0% | |
| NWS Boston/Norton, MA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 120 | 73 | 39% | 398 | 66% | 26 min |
| NWS Boston/Norton, MA: flash flood warnings | 48 | 20 | 58% | 192 | 78% | 78 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.
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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 3:57 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | BOX | 12 hr |
| Jan 1, 4:10 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BOX | 42 hr |
| Jan 2, 8:43 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jan 3, 10:35 AM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | 5 hr |
| Jan 6, 3:13 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | 12 hr |
| Jan 7, 3:08 AM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | 12 hr |
| Jan 10, 4:27 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | 30 hr |
| Jan 11, 8:28 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 47 min |
| Jan 16, 12:36 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | 7 hr |
| Jan 16, 2:37 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | 17 hr |
| Jan 20, 4:03 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | BOX | 12 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:57 PM EST | Blizzard Watch | BOX | 6 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:57 PM EST | Blizzard Watch | BOX | 13 hr |
| Jan 21, 4:29 AM EST | Blizzard Warning | BOX | 33 hr |
| Jan 21, 4:28 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 21, 9:58 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 3:56 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | 27 hr |
| Jan 28, 4:13 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | 32 hr |
| Feb 4, 4:15 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | 31 hr |
| Feb 12, 4:25 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | 33 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:49 AM EST | High Wind Warning | BOX | 14 hr |
| Feb 14, 4:24 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | BOX | 11 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:33 PM EST | Blizzard Watch | BOX | 12 hr |
| Feb 15, 3:47 AM EST | Blizzard Warning | BOX | 23 hr |
| Feb 15, 3:04 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 2:23 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | 3 hr |
| Feb 27, 10:22 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 83 min |
| Mar 2, 3:15 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | 19 hr |
| Mar 24, 4:44 AM EDT | Blizzard Watch | BOX | 34 hr |
| Mar 25, 4:42 AM EDT | High Wind Watch | BOX | 10 hr |
| Mar 25, 2:37 PM EDT | Blizzard Warning | BOX | 25 hr |
| Mar 25, 2:54 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | 38 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:09 PM EDT | High Wind Warning | BOX | 28 hr |
| Mar 25, 4:10 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | BOX | 18 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:31 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:20 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | 21 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:47 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 4:32 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | 21 hr |
| May 1, 1:21 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | 14 hr |
| May 4, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 55 min |
| Jun 12, 4:01 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | BOX | 24 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:19 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | 15 hr |
| Jul 4, 4:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BOX | 18 hr |
| Jul 4, 5:59 AM EDT | Hurricane Local Statement | BOX | 23 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:27 AM EDT | Rip Current Statement | BOX | 17 hr |
| Jul 10, 2:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 39 min |
| Jul 10, 2:39 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | 66 min |
| Jul 15, 1:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jul 16, 4:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 57 min |
| Jul 16, 4:44 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:12 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:28 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | BOX | 28 hr |
| Aug 7, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 48 min |
| Aug 27, 4:35 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | BOX | 57 hr |
| Aug 31, 10:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | 119 min |
| Sep 2, 7:03 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | 5 hr |
| Sep 21, 3:43 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | BOX | 26 hr |
| Oct 1, 2:02 PM EDT | Flood Watch | BOX | 14 hr |
| Oct 1, 5:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | 114 min |
| Oct 8, 4:07 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Oct 19, 3:08 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | BOX | 30 hr |
| Oct 31, 9:52 AM EDT | High Wind Watch | BOX | 18 hr |
| Oct 31, 3:50 PM EDT | High Wind Warning | BOX | 51 hr |
| Nov 2, 6:06 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | 7 hr |
| Nov 11, 8:31 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | 17 hr |
| Nov 14, 3:13 PM EST | Freeze Warning | BOX | 17 hr |
| Nov 16, 3:19 AM EST | High Wind Watch | BOX | 13 hr |
| Nov 16, 4:11 PM EST | High Wind Warning | BOX | 29 hr |
| Nov 17, 5:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | 25 min |
| Nov 23, 2:19 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | 24 hr |
| Nov 25, 5:23 AM EST | High Wind Watch | BOX | 9 hr |
| Nov 25, 2:51 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | 36 hr |
| Dec 6, 4:32 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | 32 hr |
| Dec 7, 4:18 PM EST | High Wind Watch | BOX | 36 hr |
| Dec 8, 4:37 AM EST | Flood Watch | BOX | 38 hr |
| Dec 8, 3:20 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | 30 hr |
| Dec 24, 3:16 AM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | 28 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:50 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 85 min |
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 | 6 |
| Special Weather Statement | 7 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 5 |
| Winter | |
| Blizzard Warning | 3 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 1 |
| Blizzard Watch | 4 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 3 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 4 |
| High Wind Watch | 5 |
| Wind Advisory | 15 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 10 |
| Tropical | |
| Hurricane Local Statement | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| High Surf Advisory | 2 |
| Rip Current Statement | 3 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.