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

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings40100%0
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings40100%0
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: flash flood warnings010%

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 16, 8:41 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR106 min
Jan 16, 9:11 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR76 min
Jan 16, 9:27 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR3 hr
Jan 31, 12:31 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMTR25 hr
Feb 1, 1:07 PM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR33 hr
Feb 7, 2:31 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMTR10 hr
Feb 7, 12:27 PM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR4 days
Feb 29, 3:58 AM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR70 hr
Mar 17, 3:23 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMTR22 min
May 22, 1:08 PM PDTExcessive Heat WatchMTR47 hr
May 24, 12:06 PM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR4 days
May 30, 2:13 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMTR62 min
May 30, 2:39 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR79 min
May 30, 3:08 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMTR52 min
Jun 1, 12:47 PM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR56 hr
Aug 12, 2:32 AM PDTExcessive Heat WatchMTR35 hr
Aug 13, 1:03 PM PDTExcessive Heat WarningMTR6 days
Aug 13, 1:03 PM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR32 hr
Aug 15, 12:00 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR69 hr
Aug 15, 2:19 AM PDTFire Weather WatchMTR8 hr
Aug 15, 10:27 AM PDTRed Flag WarningMTR49 hr
Aug 16, 2:41 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMTR94 min
Aug 16, 3:55 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMTR80 min
Aug 16, 5:14 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMTR91 min
Aug 16, 6:37 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMTR83 min
Aug 16, 8:07 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMTR38 min
Aug 16, 8:41 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMTR49 min
Aug 21, 11:04 AM PDTFire Weather WatchMTR24 hr
Aug 22, 11:48 AM PDTRed Flag WarningMTR46 hr
Sep 1, 1:01 PM PDTExcessive Heat WatchMTR48 hr
Sep 3, 1:13 PM PDTExcessive Heat WarningMTR4 days
Sep 3, 1:13 PM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR4 days
Sep 22, 10:02 AM PDTFire Weather WatchMTR65 hr
Sep 25, 3:27 AM PDTRed Flag WarningMTR4 days
Sep 26, 11:35 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR55 hr
Sep 29, 1:42 PM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR3 days
Oct 13, 10:00 AM PDTRed Flag WarningMTR4 days
Oct 14, 12:34 PM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR56 hr
Oct 20, 10:46 AM PDTRed Flag WarningMTR64 hr
Oct 22, 2:20 PM PDTFire Weather WatchMTR23 hr
Oct 23, 2:41 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchMTR23 hr
Oct 23, 1:28 PM PDTRed Flag WarningMTR4 days
Oct 24, 2:06 AM PDTWind AdvisoryMTR57 hr
Nov 6, 3:22 AM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR7 hr
Nov 7, 9:43 PM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR18 hr
Nov 14, 3:20 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR6 hr
Dec 1, 7:12 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR3 hr
Dec 6, 3:05 AM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR32 hr
Dec 6, 3:18 AM PSTRed Flag WarningMTR38 hr
Dec 21, 3:34 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR7 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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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.