Alert archive / Massachusetts

High Surf Advisories in Massachusetts

106 high surf advisories since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of high surf advisories reaches back to 2005.

High Surf Advisories by county

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

High Surf Advisories
106
Busiest year
200813 high surf advisories
Average year
5over 21 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

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The latest high surf advisories

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 3:25 PM EDTHigh Surf AdvisoryBOXDukes, Nantucket30 hr
Jul 20, 2:49 PM EDTHigh Surf AdvisoryBOXBarnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Plymouth3 days

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.