Dust Storm Warnings in California

151 dust storm warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of dust storm warnings reaches back to 2005.

Dust Storm Warnings by county

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

Dust Storm Warnings: 151
Busiest year: 202236 dust storm warnings
Average year: 8over 20 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

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The latest dust storm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 16, 5:47 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	PSR	Imperial	58 min
Aug 28, 4:32 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	PSR	Imperial	43 min
Aug 12, 6:08 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	SGX	Riverside, San Diego	52 min
Aug 12, 5:53 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	PSR	Imperial, Riverside	67 min
Aug 12, 5:08 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	PSR	Imperial, Riverside	52 min
Aug 12, 4:31 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	PSR	Imperial	59 min
May 17, 8:46 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	VEF	San Bernardino	119 min
May 17, 4:58 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	VEF	Inyo	62 min
May 17, 3:09 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	VEF	Inyo	111 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.