Weather alerts in California, May 1998

31 weather alerts in May 1998, 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 31
Warnings: 31
Watches: 0
Advisories: 0
Busiest day: May 5, 199810 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
May 2, 6:11 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	HNX	Kern	119 min
May 4, 3:42 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	STO	San Joaquin, Stanislaus	43 min
May 4, 4:03 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Kern	57 min
May 4, 4:48 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	STO	Calaveras, San Joaquin, Stanislaus	47 min
May 4, 5:54 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Kings	31 min
May 4, 6:38 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Kings	37 min
May 4, 7:49 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	STO	Calaveras, Tuolumne	31 min
May 5, 2:11 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Kern	54 min
May 5, 2:23 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Fresno, Kings	57 min
May 5, 3:20 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara	70 min
May 5, 3:27 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	HNX	Kern	118 min
May 5, 3:27 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MTR	San Benito	63 min
May 5, 4:30 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara	60 min
May 5, 4:38 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Merced	47 min
May 5, 5:14 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	HNX	Merced	2 hr
May 5, 5:30 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara	90 min
May 5, 7:00 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara	60 min
May 5, 7:20 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Los Angeles	70 min
May 5, 7:55 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara	2 hr
May 5, 8:30 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Los Angeles	90 min
May 5, 9:50 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara	2 hr
May 5, 9:55 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Los Angeles	2 hr
May 5, 11:55 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Los Angeles	2 hr
May 6, 1:55 AM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Los Angeles	2 hr
May 7, 5:01 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGX	San Bernardino	59 min
May 12, 4:46 PM PDT	Tornado Warning	STO	Solano	29 min
May 13, 10:01 AM PDT	Tornado Warning	LOX	Los Angeles, Ventura	29 min
May 13, 10:01 AM PDT	Tornado Warning	LOX	Los Angeles, Ventura	59 min
May 13, 8:26 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Los Angeles	94 min
May 16, 2:36 PM PDT	Tornado Warning	STO	Butte	29 min
May 16, 2:39 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	STO	Glenn	61 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	12
Tornado Warning	4
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	15

By county

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

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 1997 1999

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.