Alert archive / California / 2002
Weather alerts in California, December 2002
39 weather alerts in December 2002, 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 39
- Warnings
- 39
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- December 19, 200211 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 4:05 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Ventura | 55 min |
| Dec 13, 9:21 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | Napa | 2 hr |
| Dec 14, 8:57 AM PST | Special Marine Warning | EKA | 63 min | |
| Dec 14, 8:57 AM PST | Special Marine Warning | EKA | 63 min | |
| Dec 14, 10:20 AM PST | Tornado Warning | EKA | Humboldt | 25 min |
| Dec 14, 1:21 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | Riverside | 7 hr |
| Dec 14, 2:57 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sutter | 33 min |
| Dec 14, 3:25 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Solano, Sutter, Yolo | 20 min |
| Dec 14, 3:32 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Placer, Sacramento | 28 min |
| Dec 16, 3:18 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | Riverside | 3 hr |
| Dec 16, 3:21 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | Riverside | 3 hr |
| Dec 16, 3:24 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | Napa | 3 hr |
| Dec 16, 6:45 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | Santa Cruz | 2 hr |
| Dec 16, 5:31 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Tulare | 29 min |
| Dec 16, 5:32 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Tulare | 28 min |
| Dec 16, 6:00 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Tulare | 30 min |
| Dec 17, 1:20 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Kern, Tulare | 40 min |
| Dec 17, 3:37 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | SGX | 53 min | |
| Dec 17, 5:22 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Kern | 23 min |
| Dec 19, 11:21 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | Marin | 114 min |
| Dec 19, 12:20 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 55 min | |
| Dec 19, 12:20 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 55 min | |
| Dec 19, 12:20 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 55 min | |
| Dec 19, 12:38 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 37 min | |
| Dec 19, 1:15 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 60 min | |
| Dec 19, 1:15 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 60 min | |
| Dec 19, 1:15 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 60 min | |
| Dec 19, 2:20 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 60 min | |
| Dec 19, 2:20 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 60 min | |
| Dec 19, 3:00 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 2 hr | |
| Dec 19, 5:00 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 2 hr | |
| Dec 19, 7:15 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 2 hr | |
| Dec 19, 7:24 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara | 56 min |
| Dec 19, 8:53 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Santa Barbara | 2 hr |
| Dec 19, 11:12 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Santa Barbara, Ventura | 108 min |
| Dec 21, 4:00 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 60 min | |
| Dec 21, 4:00 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 60 min | |
| Dec 28, 12:40 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 60 min | |
| Dec 28, 12:40 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 60 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 | 9 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 10 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 19 |
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. Rebuilt daily.