Alert archive / California

Gale Warnings in California

2,303 gale 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 gale warnings reaches back to 2005.

Gale Warnings by county

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

Gale Warnings
2,303
Busiest year
2024175 gale warnings
Average year
115over 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

The latest gale warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 22, 2:38 AM PDTGale WarningEKA18 hr
Sep 12, 2:16 AM PDTGale WarningLOX48 hr
Sep 11, 8:36 PM PDTGale WarningMTR48 hr
Sep 1, 2:57 AM PDTGale WarningEKA39 hr
Aug 7, 3:00 PM PDTGale WarningEKA6 days
Jul 31, 2:44 AM PDTGale WarningEKA4 days
Jul 30, 2:00 AM PDTGale WarningMTR4 days
Jul 29, 1:15 PM PDTGale WarningMTR8 hr
Jul 26, 8:29 PM PDTGale WarningLOX31 hr
Jul 25, 2:15 AM PDTGale WarningLOX18 hr
Jul 23, 8:57 AM PDTGale WarningMTR6 days
Jul 23, 7:58 AM PDTGale WarningLOX42 hr

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. Rebuilt daily.