Alert archive / California / 2002
Weather alerts in California, May 2002
25 weather alerts in May 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 25
- Warnings
- 25
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 20, 200221 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:39 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | STO | Placer | 81 min |
| May 20, 11:44 AM PDT | Tornado Warning | STO | Sutter, Yolo | 31 min |
| May 20, 12:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Glenn, Tehama | 30 min |
| May 20, 12:14 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | Monterey | 46 min |
| May 20, 12:14 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Sacramento, Yolo | 31 min |
| May 20, 12:19 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | STO | Sutter, Yolo | 26 min |
| May 20, 12:23 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | San Mateo | 67 min |
| May 20, 12:48 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Sacramento | 27 min |
| May 20, 1:01 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | San Mateo | 29 min |
| May 20, 1:26 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | STO | Amador, Sacramento, San Joaquin | 34 min |
| May 20, 1:27 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | STO | Sutter, Yuba | 48 min |
| May 20, 2:03 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Sacramento, San Joaquin | 42 min |
| May 20, 2:09 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Amador | 36 min |
| May 20, 2:18 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Fresno, Madera | 42 min |
| May 20, 2:31 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Calaveras | 29 min |
| May 20, 2:32 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | STO | Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo | 28 min |
| May 20, 3:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Amador, Calaveras | 45 min |
| May 20, 3:02 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Fresno | 43 min |
| May 20, 3:10 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Placer, Sutter | 35 min |
| May 20, 3:36 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Fresno | 44 min |
| May 20, 4:01 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | HNX | Madera, Mariposa, Merced | 44 min |
| May 20, 4:31 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Fresno | 29 min |
| May 20, 5:01 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Fresno | 44 min |
| May 20, 5:46 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Fresno, Tulare | 44 min |
| May 20, 6:18 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Sacramento | 27 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 | 18 |
| Tornado Warning | 6 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
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.