Alert archive / California / Colusa County
Weather alerts in Colusa County, California, 2011
10 weather alerts in 2011, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Colusa County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 10
- Warnings
- 4
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 4
- Busiest month
- March9 alerts
- Busiest day
- March 21, 20114 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 2 tornado warnings covering Colusa County in 2011 had a tornado report inside them; 1 of 3 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 2 minutes after it went out.
Colusa County, 2011
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 3 | 33% | 2 min |
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | 11 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2011
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Sacramento, CA: tornado warnings | 10 | 4 | 60% | 16 | 44% | 19 min |
| NWS Sacramento, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 18 | 3 | 83% | 7 | 57% | 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 7:56 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | STO | 6 hr |
| Mar 18, 11:25 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | STO | 19 hr |
| Mar 20, 12:16 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | STO | 18 hr |
| Mar 21, 2:27 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | 33 min |
| Mar 21, 2:59 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | 61 min |
| Mar 21, 3:05 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | STO | 40 min |
| Mar 21, 3:48 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | STO | 27 min |
| Mar 23, 5:08 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | 52 min |
| Mar 24, 7:57 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | STO | 30 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:48 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | 57 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 | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 2 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 4 |
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.