Alert archive / Massachusetts

Weather alerts in Hampshire County, Massachusetts

3,766 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Hampshire County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,766
Warnings
1,141
Watches
574
Advisories
942
Busiest year
2008246 alerts
Average year
97over 39 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 0% of tornado reports in Hampshire County fell inside a tornado warning, and 84% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
201010100%0
20116267%0
201210100%0
201310100%0
2017010%
201830100%0
20203167%0
202410100%0
202520100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008533730%4489%23 min
2009201525%1191%24 min
2010262312%4255%23 min
2011342624%3376%24 min
2012241442%933%20 min
2013231343%1984%22 min
2014261927%4770%27 min
2015271930%19100%21 min
2016201620%3367%27 min
2017161225%1953%18 min
201817665%1127%14 min
2019291645%14100%19 min
2020393218%5292%27 min
2021342235%2882%32 min
2022221532%1995%27 min
2023171324%1292%24 min
2024282318%3194%25 min
2025201715%3795%22 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085260%5100%33 min
201140100%0
20124325%0
20139456%4100%48 min
20148275%2100%75 min
20152150%5100%39 min
201770100%0
201810370%2100%59 min
201930100%0
20202150%0
2021120100%0
202220100%0
20239456%1100%39 min
202410100%0
20258713%786%55 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 8, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX62 min
Aug 8, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX67 min
Aug 8, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX64 min
Aug 3, 5:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOX3 hr
Jul 29, 5:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOX93 min
Jul 29, 4:56 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningBOX3 hr
Jul 29, 2:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOX95 min
Jul 28, 1:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX35 min
Jul 2, 10:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX46 min
Jul 2, 10:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX56 min
Jul 1, 11:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX38 min
Jul 1, 10:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX61 min

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.