Weather alerts in Norfolk County, Massachusetts

3,913 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Norfolk County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,913
Warnings: 1,042
Watches: 582
Advisories: 1,318
Busiest year: 2018261 alerts
Average year: 98over 40 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 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	445
Tornado Warning	18
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	118
Tornado Watch	12
Mesoscale Discussion	451
Special Weather Statement	347
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	99
Flash Flood Warning	98
River Flood Warning	27
Flash Flood Watch	58
Flood Watch	91
River Flood Watch	1
Areal Flood Advisory	186
Winter
Blizzard Warning	17
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Snow Squall Warning	13
Winter Storm Warning	79
Blizzard Watch	10
Winter Storm Watch	80
Freezing Rain Advisory	9
Snow Advisory	11
Winter Weather Advisory	190
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	10
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	10
Extreme Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	85
Cold
Freeze Warning	36
Wind Chill Warning	3
Freeze Watch	23
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	4
Frost Advisory	74
Wind Chill Advisory	15
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	77
High Wind Watch	75
Wind Advisory	350
Fire
Red Flag Warning	55
Fire Weather Watch	37
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	182
Tropical
Hurricane Warning	2
Tropical Storm Warning	10
Hurricane Watch	3
Inland Tropical Storm Watch	1
Tropical Storm Watch	8
Hurricane Local Statement	1
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	49
Coastal Flood Watch	50
Coastal Flood Advisory	179
High Surf Advisory	33
Beach Hazards Statement	1
Coastal Flood Statement	144
Rip Current Statement	27

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 8, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	13 min
Aug 7, 8:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	53 min
Jul 1, 11:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	38 min
Jun 30, 1:38 AM EDT	Extreme Heat Warning	BOX	4 days
Jun 18, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	21 min
Jun 6, 9:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	39 min
May 19, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	29 min
May 19, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	27 min
May 19, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	26 min
May 19, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	30 min
May 19, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	39 min
Mar 16, 12:11 AM EDT	High Wind Warning	BOX	30 hr

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.