Alert archive / California

Weather alerts in Calaveras County, California

314 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Calaveras County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
314
Warnings
98
Watches
14
Advisories
89
Busiest year
202335 alerts
Average year
10over 31 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

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

From 2009 to 2025, 100% of tornado reports in Calaveras County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 27 minutes before, and 86% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201920100%0
202220100%0
20233167%1100%27 min

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200930100%0
201130100%0
201220100%0
201310100%0
20152150%1100%9 min
201610100%0
2017110%0
20235260%888%20 min
202410100%0
202520100%0

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2015110%250%96 min
20163167%1100%61 min
20192150%250%3 min
2023110%250%22 min
2025010%

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

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

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 12, 11:04 AM PDTRed Flag WarningSTO30 hr
May 15, 10:51 AM PDTRed Flag WarningSTO3 days
Apr 20, 8:56 AM PDTWinter Storm WarningSTO51 hr
Apr 10, 8:39 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTO36 min
Apr 10, 6:56 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTO49 min
Apr 10, 6:36 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTO24 min
Apr 10, 4:08 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTO25 min
Apr 10, 2:40 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTO35 min

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.