Alert archive / California

Weather alerts in California, 1988

44 weather alerts in 1988, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1988. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
44
Warnings
44
Watches
0
Advisories
0
Busiest month
August30 alerts
Busiest day
August 24, 198820 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 28, 12:49 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOSacramento, Yolo26 min
Feb 28, 12:54 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMTRNapa36 min
Feb 28, 1:13 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOSacramento, Solano32 min
Feb 28, 1:57 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOColusa, Sutter33 min
Feb 28, 2:05 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOButte, Glenn115 min
Feb 28, 2:20 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEKALake, Mendocino2 hr
Feb 28, 2:22 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMTRNapa, Sonoma38 min
Feb 28, 3:44 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOSiskiyou61 min
Feb 28, 3:44 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOButte, Glenn, Shasta, Tehama61 min
Jul 26, 10:10 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXSan Bernardino110 min
Jul 28, 4:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXRiverside60 min
Jul 28, 4:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXSan Bernardino60 min
Jul 31, 7:05 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOXSan Bernardino85 min
Jul 31, 7:05 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOXRiverside85 min
Aug 1, 3:15 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOXSan Bernardino2 hr
Aug 23, 4:25 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXSan Bernardino60 min
Aug 23, 6:04 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXSan Bernardino3 hr
Aug 23, 6:04 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFInyo3 hr
Aug 23, 6:40 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOXSan Bernardino2 hr
Aug 23, 6:40 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningVEFInyo2 hr
Aug 23, 10:00 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOXSan Bernardino3 hr
Aug 23, 10:00 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOXRiverside3 hr
Aug 23, 10:00 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXRiverside3 hr
Aug 23, 10:00 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXSan Bernardino3 hr
Aug 23, 10:00 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXImperial3 hr
Aug 23, 10:00 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXImperial3 hr
Aug 24, 2:25 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOXSan Bernardino50 min
Aug 24, 2:25 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOXRiverside50 min
Aug 24, 2:25 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXRiverside50 min
Aug 24, 2:25 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXSan Bernardino50 min
Aug 24, 2:25 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXImperial50 min
Aug 24, 2:25 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXImperial50 min
Aug 24, 3:30 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOXRiverside90 min
Aug 24, 3:30 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOXSan Bernardino90 min
Aug 24, 3:30 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXRiverside90 min
Aug 24, 3:30 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXSan Bernardino90 min
Aug 25, 6:52 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXRiverside2 hr
Aug 25, 6:52 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXSan Bernardino2 hr
Aug 25, 6:52 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXImperial2 hr
Aug 28, 1:35 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXImperial90 min
Aug 28, 1:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXImperial90 min
Aug 28, 4:10 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXImperial62 min
Sep 3, 4:20 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXLos Angeles, Orange40 min
Sep 3, 5:09 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXLos Angeles51 min

By product

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

ProductAlerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning30
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning14

By county

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. August 24, 198820alerts
  2. February 28, 19889alerts
  3. August 1, 19883alerts
  4. August 26, 19883alerts
  5. August 28, 19883alerts
  6. July 28, 19882alerts
  7. July 27, 19881alerts
  8. August 23, 19881alerts
  9. September 3, 19881alerts
  10. September 4, 19881alerts

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.