Alert archive / California / Fresno County

Weather alerts in Fresno County, California, 2013

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

Fresno County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
16
Warnings
0
Watches
0
Advisories
3
Busiest month
August4 alerts
Busiest day
February 20, 20133 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Fresno County, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings020%
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Phoenix, AZ: severe thunderstorm warnings592656%6568%18 min
NWS Phoenix, AZ: flash flood warnings441957%3884%55 min
NWS Los Angeles, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings4175%250%19 min
NWS Los Angeles, CA: flash flood warnings8363%1292%51 min
NWS San Diego, CA: tornado warnings010%
NWS San Diego, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings24675%2236%18 min
NWS San Diego, CA: flash flood warnings903759%7571%61 min
NWS Hanford, CA: tornado warnings010%
NWS Hanford, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings70100%60%
NWS Hanford, CA: flash flood warnings14379%1540%49 min
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings10100%0
NWS Medford, OR: tornado warnings010%
NWS Medford, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings35586%771%21 min
NWS Medford, OR: flash flood warnings20100%20%
NWS Las Vegas, NV: severe thunderstorm warnings741481%7549%18 min
NWS Las Vegas, NV: flash flood warnings30310665%25473%67 min
NWS Reno, NV: severe thunderstorm warnings46687%3129%14 min
NWS Reno, NV: flash flood warnings23578%1942%44 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: tornado warnings220%633%11 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings16288%450%2 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: flash flood warnings30100%0
NWS Eureka, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings100100%30%

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 4, 5:14 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX7 hr
Jan 4, 10:20 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX100 min
Jan 9, 11:16 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX6 hr
Feb 19, 5:03 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX27 min
Feb 19, 5:09 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX36 min
Feb 19, 5:28 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX47 min
Mar 8, 8:58 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX6 hr
Mar 31, 3:05 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX40 min
Mar 31, 2:59 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Mar 31, 8:08 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX22 min
May 6, 6:50 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX55 min
Aug 19, 5:43 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX47 min
Aug 19, 6:51 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX84 min
Aug 19, 7:28 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX4 hr
Aug 19, 8:27 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX63 min
Nov 20, 5:07 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX12 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.