Alert archive / California / Butte County
Weather alerts in Butte County, California, 2014
26 weather alerts in 2014, 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 26
- Warnings
- 8
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 6
- Busiest month
- December10 alerts
- Busiest day
- December 11, 20146 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
1 of 4 tornado warnings covering Butte County in 2014 had a tornado report inside them; 0 of 3 tornado reports fell inside a warning.
Butte County, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 4 | 1 | 75% | 3 | 0% | |
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Sacramento, CA: tornado warnings | 13 | 2 | 85% | 13 | 46% | 23 min |
| NWS Sacramento, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 13 | 3 | 77% | 9 | 33% | 21 min |
| NWS Sacramento, CA: flash flood warnings | 13 | 6 | 54% | 18 | 78% | 97 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 9:59 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | STO | 61 min |
| Feb 9, 10:42 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | STO | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 1:20 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | STO | 6 hr |
| Mar 25, 6:56 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 5:09 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | STO | 51 min |
| Mar 26, 6:01 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | STO | 44 min |
| Mar 26, 6:57 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 7:33 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | 42 min |
| Mar 29, 7:45 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | STO | 45 min |
| Mar 29, 8:33 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | STO | 42 min |
| Mar 29, 9:21 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | 54 min |
| Apr 24, 6:20 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 6:57 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | 48 min |
| May 20, 6:14 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | 46 min |
| Aug 11, 2:42 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:19 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | 41 min |
| Dec 3, 7:37 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | STO | 12 hr |
| Dec 3, 11:57 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | STO | 22 hr |
| Dec 8, 10:39 AM PST | Flood Watch | STO | 3 days |
| Dec 11, 6:36 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | STO | 6 hr |
| Dec 11, 8:55 AM PST | River Flood Warning | STO | 8 days |
| Dec 11, 9:35 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | STO | 12 hr |
| Dec 11, 11:34 AM PST | Areal Flood Warning | STO | 12 hr |
| Dec 11, 1:57 PM PST | Areal Flood Warning | STO | 12 hr |
| Dec 11, 2:36 PM PST | River Flood Warning | STO | 8 days |
| Dec 24, 2:38 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | STO | 37 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 | |
| Tornado Warning | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 10 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 2 |
| River Flood Warning | 2 |
| Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 6 |
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.