Alert archive / California / Butte County

Weather alerts in Butte County, California, 2010

16 weather alerts in 2010, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Butte County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2010. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
16
Warnings
0
Watches
0
Advisories
10
Busiest month
January6 alerts
Busiest day
January 20, 20103 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

Butte County, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings010%
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Phoenix, AZ: tornado warnings4250%367%9 min
NWS Phoenix, AZ: severe thunderstorm warnings823656%11369%19 min
NWS Phoenix, AZ: flash flood warnings381171%1889%36 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: tornado warnings030%
NWS Sacramento, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings40100%10%
NWS San Diego, CA: tornado warnings4250%2100%15 min
NWS San Diego, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings15473%1833%29 min
NWS San Diego, CA: flash flood warnings29969%2446%84 min
NWS Las Vegas, NV: tornado warnings020%
NWS Las Vegas, NV: severe thunderstorm warnings66691%4335%15 min
NWS Las Vegas, NV: flash flood warnings903067%8748%98 min
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: tornado warnings30100%0
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings60100%90%
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: flash flood warnings20100%10%
NWS Los Angeles, CA: tornado warnings10100%30%
NWS Los Angeles, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings16381%3514%42 min
NWS Los Angeles, CA: flash flood warnings30293%2110%112 min
NWS Hanford, CA: tornado warnings110%250%0 min
NWS Hanford, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings60100%120%
NWS Hanford, CA: flash flood warnings60100%30%
NWS Medford, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings231057%1782%15 min
NWS Medford, OR: flash flood warnings10100%0
NWS Reno, NV: severe thunderstorm warnings26292%838%18 min
NWS Reno, NV: flash flood warnings19289%367%20 min

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 19, 5:52 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO8 hr
Jan 19, 4:38 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTO52 min
Jan 20, 8:10 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO12 hr
Jan 20, 3:59 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTO46 min
Jan 20, 4:04 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTO41 min
Jan 25, 1:16 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO12 hr
Mar 8, 1:22 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTO53 min
Mar 30, 6:28 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO32 min
May 27, 6:03 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO42 min
Sep 19, 4:43 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO2 hr
Oct 24, 10:09 AM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO6 hr
Oct 24, 4:01 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO3 hr
Nov 7, 5:01 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO3 hr
Dec 17, 1:54 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO48 hr
Dec 19, 1:59 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO12 hr
Dec 28, 1:22 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO14 hr

By product

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

ProductAlerts
Severe storms
Special Weather Statement6
Flooding
Areal Flood Advisory10

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.