Extreme Cold Warnings in California
7 extreme cold 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 extreme cold warnings reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Warnings
- 7
- Busiest year
- 20266 extreme cold warnings
- Average year
- 4over 2 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 extreme cold warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 11:53 AM PST | Extreme Cold Warning | MTR | Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara | 21 hr |
| Feb 18, 11:25 PM PST | Extreme Cold Warning | MTR | Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito and 2 more | 34 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:59 AM PST | Extreme Cold Warning | MTR | Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara | 30 hr |
| Jan 10, 11:14 AM PST | Extreme Cold Warning | MTR | Monterey | 22 hr |
| Jan 9, 1:07 PM PST | Extreme Cold Warning | MTR | Monterey, San Benito | 20 hr |
| Jan 7, 11:54 PM PST | Extreme Cold Warning | MTR | Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara | 33 hr |
Nearby
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. Rebuilt daily.