Alert archive / California / Contra Costa County

Weather alerts in Contra Costa County, California, 2013

38 weather alerts in 2013, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Contra Costa County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
38
Warnings
13
Watches
4
Advisories
19
Busiest month
January14 alerts
Busiest day
January 9, 20134 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Contra Costa County, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings10100%0
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings10100%0

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 1, 4:25 AM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR29 hr
Jan 7, 2:49 PM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR21 hr
Jan 9, 2:22 AM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR54 hr
Jan 9, 2:22 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR54 hr
Jan 9, 5:12 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR6 hr
Jan 9, 10:42 AM PSTBeach Hazards StatementMTR49 hr
Jan 10, 1:45 PM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR34 hr
Jan 10, 1:45 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR34 hr
Jan 12, 3:25 AM PSTFreeze WatchMTR11 hr
Jan 12, 2:41 PM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR17 hr
Jan 12, 2:41 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR17 hr
Jan 13, 10:12 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR23 hr
Jan 14, 10:59 AM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR22 hr
Jan 14, 10:59 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR22 hr
Mar 1, 4:44 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR4 hr
Mar 13, 6:39 AM PDTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR3 hr
Mar 31, 2:59 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Mar 31, 7:48 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMTR12 min
Apr 7, 5:30 PM PDTWind AdvisoryMTR27 hr
Apr 14, 1:21 PM PDTWind AdvisoryMTR32 hr
May 1, 2:58 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR42 hr
Jun 8, 9:46 AM PDTFire Weather WatchMTR26 hr
Jun 27, 11:13 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR26 hr
Jun 28, 1:42 PM PDTExcessive Heat WarningMTR6 days
Aug 17, 10:45 AM PDTFire Weather WatchMTR18 hr
Aug 18, 5:02 AM PDTRed Flag WarningMTR3 days
Oct 23, 2:41 PM PDTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR8 hr
Oct 27, 9:09 PM PDTWind AdvisoryMTR6 hr
Nov 14, 3:11 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR6 hr
Nov 20, 12:52 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR83 min
Nov 21, 1:06 AM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR45 hr
Dec 2, 10:50 AM PSTFreeze WatchMTR26 hr
Dec 3, 9:20 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR72 hr
Dec 6, 1:12 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR44 hr
Dec 7, 12:54 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR44 hr
Dec 8, 1:47 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR43 hr
Dec 10, 3:26 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR30 hr
Dec 10, 1:02 PM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR20 hr

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.