Alert archive / Massachusetts

Weather alerts in Worcester County, Massachusetts

4,477 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Worcester County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
4,477
Warnings
1,661
Watches
583
Advisories
1,059
Busiest year
2008296 alerts
Average year
109over 41 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.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 13, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX44 min
Aug 8, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX13 min
Aug 8, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX62 min
Aug 7, 8:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX53 min
Aug 3, 6:49 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOX3 hr
Jul 29, 5:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOX93 min
Jul 29, 4:56 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningBOX3 hr
Jul 28, 1:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX35 min
Jul 16, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX37 min
Jul 2, 11:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX53 min
Jul 2, 10:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX46 min
Jul 1, 11:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX38 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. Rebuilt daily.