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

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings4175%30%
Severe thunderstorm warnings00
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Sacramento, CA: tornado warnings13285%1346%23 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings13377%933%21 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: flash flood warnings13654%1878%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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 9, 9:59 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTO61 min
Feb 9, 10:42 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO3 hr
Feb 28, 1:20 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO6 hr
Mar 25, 6:56 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO49 min
Mar 26, 5:09 PM PDTTornado WarningSTO51 min
Mar 26, 6:01 PM PDTTornado WarningSTO44 min
Mar 26, 6:57 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO48 min
Mar 26, 7:33 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO42 min
Mar 29, 7:45 PM PDTTornado WarningSTO45 min
Mar 29, 8:33 PM PDTTornado WarningSTO42 min
Mar 29, 9:21 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO54 min
Apr 24, 6:20 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO40 min
Apr 24, 6:57 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO48 min
May 20, 6:14 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO46 min
Aug 11, 2:42 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Oct 25, 3:19 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO41 min
Dec 3, 7:37 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO12 hr
Dec 3, 11:57 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO22 hr
Dec 8, 10:39 AM PSTFlood WatchSTO3 days
Dec 11, 6:36 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO6 hr
Dec 11, 8:55 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSTO8 days
Dec 11, 9:35 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO12 hr
Dec 11, 11:34 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningSTO12 hr
Dec 11, 1:57 PM PSTAreal Flood WarningSTO12 hr
Dec 11, 2:36 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSTO8 days
Dec 24, 2:38 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTO37 min

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.