Alert archive / California / 2006
Weather alerts in California, May 2006
41 weather alerts in May 2006, 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 41
- Warnings
- 14
- Watches
- 10
- Advisories
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20067 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 1, 2:35 AM PDT | Flood Watch | HNX | 7 hr | |
| May 3, 4:17 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Sierra, Yuba | 43 min |
| May 8, 3:44 PM PDT | Flood Watch | HNX | 66 hr | |
| May 12, 9:01 AM PDT | Flood Watch | HNX | 50 hr | |
| May 16, 5:23 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Plumas | 37 min |
| May 17, 1:11 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | Santa Barbara | 40 min |
| May 17, 4:57 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Tuolumne | 48 min |
| May 17, 5:13 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Calaveras | 47 min |
| May 18, 3:04 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Kern | 26 min |
| May 18, 3:26 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara | 64 min |
| May 18, 5:02 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Kern | 58 min |
| May 19, 3:07 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | VEF | San Bernardino | 24 hr |
| May 19, 3:12 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | Imperial, Riverside | 24 hr |
| May 19, 8:00 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | REV | Mono | 3 hr |
| May 20, 1:55 AM PDT | Flood Watch | HNX | 56 hr | |
| May 20, 3:00 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 29 hr |
| May 20, 3:41 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | Imperial, Riverside | 28 hr |
| May 20, 8:41 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOX | Los Angeles | 33 hr |
| May 21, 2:26 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | REV | Mono | 14 hr |
| May 21, 2:38 AM PDT | Lake Wind Advisory | VEF | 17 hr | |
| May 21, 6:44 AM PDT | Flood Watch | REV | Alpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Mono, Nevada, Placer and 2 more | 13 hr |
| May 21, 1:55 PM PDT | Marine Weather Statement | LOX | 15 hr | |
| May 21, 2:28 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PSR | 24 hr | |
| May 21, 2:44 PM PDT | Snow Advisory | REV | Mono | 5 hr |
| May 21, 8:50 PM PDT | Marine Weather Statement | SGX | 8 hr | |
| May 22, 8:57 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | PSR | 5 hr | |
| May 24, 2:13 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | LOX | 19 hr | |
| May 25, 1:28 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | HNX | 62 hr | |
| May 25, 2:17 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | LOX | 12 hr | |
| May 25, 2:49 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | Imperial, Riverside | 23 hr |
| May 25, 3:46 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | REV | Alpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, Mono, Nevada and 3 more | 36 hr |
| May 25, 3:49 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | VEF | San Bernardino | 23 hr |
| May 26, 2:56 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | LOX | 54 hr | |
| May 26, 3:47 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | Inyo, San Bernardino | 19 hr |
| May 26, 10:44 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 37 hr | |
| May 26, 11:20 AM PDT | Marine Weather Statement | MTR | 11 hr | |
| May 26, 1:32 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | Imperial, Riverside | 30 hr |
| May 26, 3:04 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 28 hr |
| May 27, 2:48 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | SGX | Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego | 24 hr |
| May 27, 3:11 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | LOX | 18 hr | |
| May 29, 7:59 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | LOX | 8 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 | 8 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Flood Watch | 5 |
| Winter | |
| Snow Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| Lake Wind Advisory | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 12 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 5 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 4 |
| Marine | |
| Marine Weather Statement | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- San Bernardino County6
- Riverside County5
- Mono County5
- Imperial County4
- Sierra County3
- Plumas County3
- Santa Barbara County2
- Kern County2
- Alpine County2
- El Dorado County2
- Lassen County2
- Nevada County2
- Placer County2
- Yuba County1
- Tuolumne County1
- Calaveras County1
- San Luis Obispo County1
- Los Angeles County1
- Modoc County1
- Inyo County1
- San Diego County1
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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.