Alert archive / California / Alameda County
Weather alerts in Alameda County, California, 2020
50 weather alerts in 2020, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Alameda County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 50
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 10
- Advisories
- 22
- Busiest month
- August14 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 16, 20206 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Alameda County, 2020
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 4 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2020
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 4 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: flash flood warnings | 0 | 1 | 0% |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.
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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 8:41 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 106 min |
| Jan 16, 9:11 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 76 min |
| Jan 16, 9:27 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 3 hr |
| Jan 31, 12:31 PM PST | High Wind Watch | MTR | 25 hr |
| Feb 1, 1:07 PM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 33 hr |
| Feb 7, 2:31 AM PST | High Wind Watch | MTR | 10 hr |
| Feb 7, 12:27 PM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 4 days |
| Feb 29, 3:58 AM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 70 hr |
| Mar 17, 3:23 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MTR | 22 min |
| May 22, 1:08 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | MTR | 47 hr |
| May 24, 12:06 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 4 days |
| May 30, 2:13 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MTR | 62 min |
| May 30, 2:39 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 79 min |
| May 30, 3:08 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MTR | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 12:47 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 56 hr |
| Aug 12, 2:32 AM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | MTR | 35 hr |
| Aug 13, 1:03 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | MTR | 6 days |
| Aug 13, 1:03 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 32 hr |
| Aug 15, 12:00 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 69 hr |
| Aug 15, 2:19 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | MTR | 8 hr |
| Aug 15, 10:27 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | MTR | 49 hr |
| Aug 16, 2:41 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | 94 min |
| Aug 16, 3:55 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | 80 min |
| Aug 16, 5:14 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | 91 min |
| Aug 16, 6:37 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | 83 min |
| Aug 16, 8:07 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MTR | 38 min |
| Aug 16, 8:41 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MTR | 49 min |
| Aug 21, 11:04 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | MTR | 24 hr |
| Aug 22, 11:48 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | MTR | 46 hr |
| Sep 1, 1:01 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | MTR | 48 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:13 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | MTR | 4 days |
| Sep 3, 1:13 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 4 days |
| Sep 22, 10:02 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | MTR | 65 hr |
| Sep 25, 3:27 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | MTR | 4 days |
| Sep 26, 11:35 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 55 hr |
| Sep 29, 1:42 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 3 days |
| Oct 13, 10:00 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | MTR | 4 days |
| Oct 14, 12:34 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 56 hr |
| Oct 20, 10:46 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | MTR | 64 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:20 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | MTR | 23 hr |
| Oct 23, 2:41 AM PDT | High Wind Watch | MTR | 23 hr |
| Oct 23, 1:28 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | MTR | 4 days |
| Oct 24, 2:06 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | MTR | 57 hr |
| Nov 6, 3:22 AM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 7 hr |
| Nov 7, 9:43 PM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 18 hr |
| Nov 14, 3:20 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 6 hr |
| Dec 1, 7:12 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 3 hr |
| Dec 6, 3:05 AM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 32 hr |
| Dec 6, 3:18 AM PST | Red Flag Warning | MTR | 38 hr |
| Dec 21, 3:34 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 7 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 | 4 |
| Special Weather Statement | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 4 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 2 |
| Excessive Heat Watch | 3 |
| Heat Advisory | 8 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Watch | 3 |
| Wind Advisory | 7 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 7 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 4 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 3 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.