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Flood Watches in California, 2016

22 flood watches in 2016. 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.

Flood Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Flood Watches
22
Busiest month
March7 flood watches
Busiest day
December 13, 20165 flood watches

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 16, 4:15 AM PSTFlood WatchMFRSiskiyou34 hr
Jan 16, 8:08 AM PSTFlood WatchEKA43 hr
Jan 27, 3:24 AM PSTFlood WatchMFRSiskiyou58 hr
Jan 27, 2:52 PM PSTFlood WatchEKA42 hr
Mar 3, 3:22 PM PSTFlood WatchEKA60 hr
Mar 4, 2:17 PM PSTFlood WatchMFRModoc, Siskiyou37 hr
Mar 9, 2:31 PM PSTFlood WatchSTOAmador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn and 13 more5 days
Mar 10, 10:49 AM PSTFlood WatchEKA51 hr
Mar 11, 8:59 AM PSTFlood WatchMFRSiskiyou65 hr
Mar 11, 3:47 PM PSTFlood WatchEKA22 hr
Mar 12, 1:56 PM PSTFlood WatchEKA36 hr
Oct 15, 3:26 AM PDTFlood WatchEKADel Norte, Humboldt12 hr
Nov 23, 1:51 PM PSTFlood WatchMFRSiskiyou58 hr
Nov 24, 3:26 AM PSTFlood WatchEKADel Norte, Humboldt29 hr
Nov 25, 8:52 AM PSTFlood WatchEKADel Norte, Humboldt6 hr
Dec 9, 1:31 PM PSTFlood WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer28 hr
Dec 11, 1:40 PM PSTFlood WatchSTO5 days
Dec 12, 5:35 PM PSTFlood WatchEKADel Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity70 hr
Dec 13, 10:33 AM PSTFlood WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Nevada, Placer, Plumas and 1 more65 hr
Dec 13, 1:45 PM PSTFlood WatchHNX61 hr
Dec 13, 3:30 PM PSTFlood WatchMFRModoc, Siskiyou55 hr
Dec 13, 3:30 PM PSTFlood WatchMFRSiskiyou51 hr

By county

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. December 13, 20165flood watches
  2. January 16, 20162flood watches
  3. January 27, 20162flood watches
  4. March 11, 20162flood watches
  5. March 3, 20161flood watches
  6. March 4, 20161flood watches
  7. March 9, 20161flood watches
  8. March 10, 20161flood watches
  9. March 12, 20161flood watches
  10. October 15, 20161flood watches
  11. November 23, 20161flood watches
  12. November 24, 20161flood watches

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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.