Alert archive / California / 1996
Weather alerts in California, December 1996
19 weather alerts in December 1996, 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 December 1996. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 19
- Warnings
- 19
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- December 10, 19965 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 11:26 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MFR | Siskiyou | 4 min |
| Dec 9, 4:50 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | Santa Barbara | 55 min |
| Dec 10, 7:34 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | Santa Clara, Santa Cruz | 4 hr |
| Dec 10, 10:58 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | Santa Clara, Santa Cruz | 3 hr |
| Dec 10, 1:55 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | Santa Clara, Santa Cruz | 2 hr |
| Dec 10, 3:55 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | Santa Clara, Santa Cruz | 2 hr |
| Dec 12, 3:56 PM PST | Tornado Warning | STO | Stanislaus | 34 min |
| Dec 12, 4:30 PM PST | Tornado Warning | STO | Calaveras, Stanislaus | 30 min |
| Dec 21, 10:49 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | STO | Stanislaus | 9 hr |
| Dec 22, 6:15 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | STO | Stanislaus | 10 hr |
| Dec 22, 3:00 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | STO | Stanislaus | 7 hr |
| Dec 27, 3:30 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | STO | Placer, Sacramento | 5 hr |
| Dec 28, 4:20 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | EKA | Del Norte, Humboldt | 24 hr |
| Dec 29, 11:47 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | EKA | Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity | 118 min |
| Dec 29, 2:05 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | EKA | Mendocino | 3 hr |
| Dec 29, 3:15 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | EKA | Mendocino | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 12:44 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | STO | Shasta | 10 hr |
| Dec 30, 10:00 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | REV | San Bernardino | 2 hr |
| Dec 31, 1:48 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | EKA | Trinity | 6 hr |
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 | 1 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 16 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.