Weather alerts in California, 1989
45 weather alerts in 1989, 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 1989. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 45
- Warnings
- 45
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- August24 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 10, 198916 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 12:28 PM PST | Tornado Warning | STO | Butte, Tehama | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:07 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Butte, Tehama | 68 min |
| Apr 23, 4:14 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Butte, Tehama | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 4:16 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Yuba | 44 min |
| Apr 23, 5:05 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Nevada, Yuba | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 3:37 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | San Joaquin | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 6:00 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Riverside | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 6:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | Riverside | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 6:00 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Imperial | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 6:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | Imperial | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:45 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | HNX | Kern | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:45 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Inyo | 75 min |
| Aug 9, 4:00 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Riverside | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | Riverside | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:00 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Imperial | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | Imperial | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:20 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | San Bernardino | 100 min |
| Aug 9, 5:20 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | San Bernardino | 100 min |
| Aug 9, 5:57 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mono | 5 hr |
| Aug 9, 7:00 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Riverside | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 7:00 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | San Bernardino | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 7:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | San Bernardino | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 7:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | Riverside | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 7:00 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Imperial | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 7:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | Imperial | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 8:30 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Riverside | 90 min |
| Aug 9, 8:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | Riverside | 90 min |
| Aug 9, 10:00 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Riverside | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:15 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Riverside | 105 min |
| Aug 10, 3:02 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mono | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:33 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Diego | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 3:35 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Inyo | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 6:30 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Inyo | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 7:05 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | STO | Siskiyou, Trinity | 2 hr |
| Sep 18, 2:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | Contra Costa | 90 min |
| Sep 18, 2:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | San Joaquin | 90 min |
| Sep 18, 3:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | Contra Costa | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 3:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | San Joaquin | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 3:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Solano | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 4:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | Contra Costa | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 4:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | Contra Costa | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 4:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Solano | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 4:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | San Joaquin | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 5:34 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | MTR | Contra Costa | 56 min |
| Sep 18, 5:34 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | STO | San Joaquin, Stanislaus | 56 min |
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 | 23 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 19 |
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.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19881990
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.